NabiBust - the PHP Obfuscator

Normally, code must be, above all, readable. But PHP is a script language and the source code therefore is always open. Hence, there can be situations in which you want to avoid that others can read the code. Be it a clever algorithm, something which involves security or simply the fact that you don't want to be confronted with programming errors of somebody else.

To turn readable code into non readable, we use an obfuscator. An obfusc ator removes linebreaks, comments and indents, and it replaces identifiers by sensless strings.

There are many PHP obfuscators on the market, but only a few of them can be integrated seamlessly in a bigger PHP project. NabiBust is written in PHP itself, which guarantees that it can be easily called by continuous integration scripts.

NabiBust closes a gap in the world of PHP tools and is freeware.