SourceGuardian announced a major new release of their award winning cross-platform PHP security software. SourceGuardian Version 5.5 has a whole host of new features, but the predominant theme of this upgrade is to make it easier for PHP developers to create and distribute their commercial work. A completely new licensing engine has been added to SourceGuardian, giving developers the power to create specifically licensed versions of their applications including trial versions and also more flexibility in locking their software to specific machines.
The new SourceGuardian 5.5 licensing engine, which is bundled as part of the package, protects the intellectual property within PHP scripts without the need to re-encode scripts for each customer. The licensing engine can create trial versions of applications, can be locked to a specific IP, Mac address or domain name and provides an automatic method of generating license keys that can be used seamlessly with existing software distribution systems.
In addition to the licensing system, the SourceGuardian 5.5 PHP encoder receives a number of other major updates including custom error handling, compression levels and the ability for the developer to specify if files can be ran alongside unprotected files. One new feature welcomed by customers is the addition of timeserver support. Said Andy Harris of GenerateOne;
