Hello,

short version:
Anyone know of a working maintained project that allows saving compiled php scripts and running my server off of that without the source scripts?


longer:

I am currently running a server with a fair bit of PHP back-end programming that I have developed. I have been researching PHP optimization to increase server performance. It seems that many of the most successful projects that speed up php do so by pre-compiling the scripts and storing the byte-code in memory.

It seems that there were a few projects that allowed you to save this compiled binary and use it instead of the plain-text scripts. This is particularly interesting to me as I am also looking to obfuscate my code before distributing it to some not-necessarily-trustworthy associates. If I could do this I could kill two birds with one stone. The only issue is that all the projects I have found that allow you to run from only compiled files without the scripts are now dead / unmaintained / defunct / dysfunctional


Anyone know of a working maintained project that allows saving compiled php scripts and running my server off of that without the source scripts?


thanks for your help.

There are several byte code caches out there. Just to name a few: Zend Guard / Optimizer, eAccelerator, ionCube, APC, etc.

Keep in mind, that this is not a holy grail. If your code is slow, it will be slow with the cache as well.

I'm not sure if this is anything like what you're looking for, but I overheard my coworker say "php compiler" and I remembered seeing this post. So for what it's worth check out: http://www.roadsend.com/home/index.php?pageID=compiler, http://www.phpcompiler.org/ and http://quercus.caucho.com/.