Keeping source code safe

PHP
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Hello,

I will be creating a WEB application and I will have to deploy it on my clients server. So my question is: How to keep my source code safe, so they couldn’t copy it?

  1. If I will write code with Java(Servlets/JSP) - are these files compiled when you upload it to the server?
  2. What about Zend Guard for PHP? Is it effective?
  3. Any other advice?
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Really most tools will just be code obfuscation and compression. There are other tools that can try to reverse that into something usable though.

The only sure thing I can think of is using a language that compiles to an actual binary app. This would be very hard to reverse engineer.

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