Zend Guard enables the Protection and mass distribution of commercial PHP applications. Zend Guard provides
independent software vendors and IT managers with the ability to safely distribute and manage the deployment of
their PHP applications while protecting their source code. Zend Guard is comprised of two key components, Zend
Guard's encoder and Zend Guard's license manager. Product Benefits: Enables the protection and mass
distribution of commercial PHP applications, Increases IP protection (against copyright infringement and Reverse
engineering) by distributing applications without revealing source code, Provides IT Managers with a solution that
prohibits modification of their internal PHP application source code so they can effectively support them, Allows
ISVs to impose a variety of licensing policies on commercial PHP applications, Vendors can increase their revenue
by choosing from a variety of licensing models such as concurrent users, time limited, segment of network, or server
specific
