The Minify.php script will remove all the page setup of an existing PHP source code i.e. remove comments, unneeded carriage returns, multiples spaces, ...

Then, once minified, the script will obfuscate your code based on your settings.

Take a look on the src/settings.json, it looks like:

{
    "replace": {
        "$commentTokens": "$n",
        "$compress": "$xZ0",
        "$content": "$c",
        "removeComments": "rmCts"
    }
}

The replace array contains a list of keys (like $commentTokens) and a list of values (like $n).

You should define there the list of everything you want to obfuscate like the name of your class, name of your functions or variables.

In the example provided above, every occurrences of $commentTokens in the source file will be replaced by $n and this will be done for each keys.

The minify script requires two arguments, the name of the input file and the name of the name of the resulting, output, file.

php Minify.php input=src/Minify.php output=samples/test.php

The command line above will process the [src/Minify.php](https://github.com/cavo789/php_obfuscator/blob/main/src/minify.php), keep that file unmodified but read his content, minify and obfuscate it and create then the https://github.com/cavo789/php_obfuscator/blob/main/samples/test.php file.

The file samples/test.php has been created by running this command: php Minify.php input=src/Minify.php output=samples/test.php.

The original file is src/Minify.php.

I've created this script years ago (in 2013) when I've started to develop and sell a web application firewall.

This software took me several hundred hours and, at the time, I wanted to secure my work and make it as difficult as possible for a dishonest person to appropriate my work and sell it on their behalf.

Making the code unreadable seemed like a good solution at the time.

Christophe Avonture