Today at my project, I was faced with a simple question from the client – How do you ensure that your PHP code is not tampered?
Honestly, I had no answer. 🙁
The only ray of hope I thought was – Since PHP is interpreted, is there some compressing, or obfuscating tool out there that can help me?
One possible solution I came across was encrypting your logic entirely so as unreadable to humans
http://www.abhishektripathi.com/encrypting-footer-links-free-theme-developers-take-notice/
Is this failsafe? Can it be still reverse engineered, and original source obtained to defeat the original purpose of protecting your code?
Anyone to help out there?