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Launched UploadScript v1.0 Beta

After many days of researching ways to encrypt/encode php scripts, I finally was able to come up with a solution.

I tried using a full version of Zend Guard, then found out that it requires Zend optimizer installed for the encoding to take place.  Tried installing Zend optimizer since it's free, on my PC but that was worthless, as my PC is not setup as a web-server... I just figured I'd give it a try and that maybe the two would somehow work together to at least encode the pages -- no go.

Looked up info for some other PHP encrypters and found one that was free and did not require any optimizers to run on the server, which was good news.  Installation was simple, just files in a folder.  The only problem was that it runs on a web server running PHP.  So I uploaded it to my server and ran it from there.  Now to encrypt files it needs to access the source and target directories via an absolute path, like C:/blabla/blabla... and I had no idea how to get that information on my server.  So that was useless.

Finally came across a cool site somehow that claimed to encrypt php pages online.  Pages are encrypted with a randomly generated constant.  Tried it.  It worked!  This was the answer I was looking for.

Encrypted all pages and added protection that disabled the entire script from functioning if the footer.php file was edited or removed -- this would ensure that any and all applications of UploadScript v1.0 Beta had a recriprocal link back to uploadscript.net, allowing me to finish the script and release the free version.

Finished the site (uploadscript.net).  Uploaded the script.  Got approved by Adsense for this site.  Submitted script and site to hotscripts.com (currently pending approval).  We'll see how things go from here.