Ask: activation method on application

dear all,
i am looking an idea to enforce application activation before a PHP application is used.
people will get the application freely, but have to register to activate it.
any solution?

regards,

You could use something like this: http://www.phplicengine.com/

You’ll have to encrypt at least part of your application though (using something like ionCube), otherwise people can just hack out the bits that deal with licensing.

i have read about ionCube also. it’s too expensive. is there another way? cheap or free i mean?

Well, you could write your own licensing software, but I think that all real encrypters/ encoders are paid modules.

What is the goal of requiring people activate the app? Maybe we can think of a different/ better way of solving this.