Zend Encoder
 

Anyone has experiences with this ?
Or for that matter, other php code encryptor programs ?

My company is in the midst of evaluating the various options available and sure would like to hear some feedback :)

howdy cinq-
Not much to add, but I have friends who have used ioncube and sourceguardian which they liked much better than zend.

Zend "owns" PHP, so I imagine they know how to encode and optimize it well, but I think their main gripe against the Zend products was the price and dealing with the .zif files.

microcode is also a gnu php encoder that is gaining popularity that you may want to check out.

Our main concern ( as with most looking for encoding solutions I should think ), would how not to affect the client that much, in the requirements they must have to run encoded scripts.

Will check out the links you provided, many thanks.
Wonder if I ride and get a license for personal use :D