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Licencing PHP application
Hi,
I have written a PHP application for a company I work for, now they want to licence it out to other companies to use. Part of this application allows the administrator to add other user and devices that are monitored.
What we would like to do is be able to limit the number of users/devices that can be added according to which licence our customers buy.
One way I thought of doing this is to have the application Zend encoded, and within a PHP file a variable that will relate to the number of users that are allowed to be added.
id like to hear from anyone who has done anything like this before, and if there is a good secure way to go about this.
Thanks
D.
I have written a PHP application for a company I work for, now they want to licence it out to other companies to use. Part of this application allows the administrator to add other user and devices that are monitored.
What we would like to do is be able to limit the number of users/devices that can be added according to which licence our customers buy.
One way I thought of doing this is to have the application Zend encoded, and within a PHP file a variable that will relate to the number of users that are allowed to be added.
id like to hear from anyone who has done anything like this before, and if there is a good secure way to go about this.
Thanks
D.
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I wrote a short licence.php file which has a couple of functions that check the number of users in teh db and compare them to a variable in that file. Used Zend Encoder to make it a bit trickier to break :)