Question About License Manager

[serge]

Hello,

 

At checking the online documentation here: http://docs.blesta.com/display/user/License+Manager

 

at seeing this section:

Code Integration
Initialize the License Manager

Before you can begin using the License Manager within your code you have to initialize it with some data.

require_once "path/to/license.php";

It's unclear for me where is the original file : license.php

 

I know there is such file in public_html/app/models/ , but I wanted a confirmation that is this really this file it's was about?

 

and supposing it's this file, so it's need Ioncube Loader on customer side?

 

 

[ModulesBakery]

It's included with the license manager plugin directory:

blesta/plugins/license_manager/dist

 

you will find an example and the files you need to initialize the licensing.

[century1stop]

Hello,

 

If I do not encode the software, what's stopping clients from removing code snippets? Is there a way to overcome this?

 

Thanks

[Paul]

Hello,

 

If I do not encode the software, what's stopping clients from removing code snippets? Is there a way to overcome this?

 

Thanks

 

Nothing, but most honest folks won't mess with it. If they want to steal it, they can reverse engineer ioncubed files anyway. No real way around it, but it's a little easier for someone with some PHP knowledge without ioncube. Up to you how you want to go.

[century1stop]

Thanks, thought so too. Well, it's free software for clients and I just do not want 'em used elsewhere, plus they can't be encoded since customization needed. Now I've 1 big bundle of software not sure how to distribute

[Michael]

Why not just make one index.php encoded which doesn't need to be customised but calls home.

[century1stop]

problem is, even index.php need customization (premium full site templates, ecommerce / site cms, etc.), else they'll be useless for clients

[Michael]

problem is, even index.php need customization (premium full site templates, ecommerce / site cms, etc.), else they'll be useless for clients

 

 

Why not for example:

 

index.php encrypted.

<?php
if license is valid[
include(./folder/header.php);
include(./folder/content.php);
include(./folder/footer.php);
]else[
Sorry this website is not licensed
]

[century1stop]

thanks for the tip, I'll look into that

but speaking for myself, I'll want to customize everything

 

if things work out, I'll get the license manager's package