# Zend Guard Reviews **Vendor:** Perforce **Category:** [PHP Web Frameworks](https://www.g2.com/categories/php-web-frameworks) **Average Rating:** 4.5/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 4 ## About Zend Guard With Zend Guard, you can encode, obfuscate and protect your PHP code to prevent unlicensed use and reverse engineering. ## Zend Guard Reviews ### 1. Useful to protect your php code **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Orlando Mauro P. | Web Architect, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 18, 2019 **What do you like best about Zend Guard?** easy to integrate, sure, good documentation **What do you dislike about Zend Guard?** the cost make it useful only for big project **Recommendations to others considering Zend Guard:** Useful to protect php code **What problems is Zend Guard solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use Zend Guard in order to protect our php source code and to manage licensing ### 2. Zend Guard Experience **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Internet | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 12, 2019 **What do you like best about Zend Guard?** ++ Zend Guard have some of the features that can be a hardcode for your application to avoid customization or some one might change them to reverse engineering that might backfires in you or find vulnerabilities or the creations in them. ++ Enable the set up of licenses across your products that be uses across your desired products that you release ( virtual or on the cloud), or if you upload them into easy to hack pages would avoid any further actions on the already created content, or hack on the applications for free usage of sort. **What do you dislike about Zend Guard?** ++it's does demand a high learning curve on the process of the set up of the applications on php encoding, and while creating licensing policies might be a little problematic. ++ Is for an specific public aimed, this making it a little single use, however I am sure that a software development company would be able to protect their intelectual property and copyright protection **Recommendations to others considering Zend Guard:** I would only suggest this application for people with new applications that would be protecting their investment since some reverse engineering would affect the creation of a whole team, with my personal experience this would be more that awesome if its a game (this is my experience) would avoid the plagiarism of some of the assets. **What problems is Zend Guard solving and how is that benefiting you?** ++Protections of coding created by developers. ++Creation of crafted licenses for production distribution ++Would work for both big and small businesses that for is the right track. ### 3. A Developers Must Have **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Charles B. | Administration , Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 13, 2019 **What do you like best about Zend Guard?** Protect all of your PHP code with Zend Guard. This software is a must-have for every developer that writes code. **What do you dislike about Zend Guard?** The installation process in setup could be a little easier. **What problems is Zend Guard solving and how is that benefiting you?** Protecting you're valuable code is extremely important. There are too many clone sites out there that rip off your code, keep it safe! ### 4. Zend Guard is great! **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Civil Engineering | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 13, 2019 **What do you like best about Zend Guard?** Love how it protects our encode securely and efficiently **What do you dislike about Zend Guard?** Need to get other people to use this software **What problems is Zend Guard solving and how is that benefiting you?** Encoding and other related fields - [View Zend Guard pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/zend-guard/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-05-28+03%3A30%3A32+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=52ec69ee-7b3d-40fd-9b8f-5aad4897b781&secure%5Btoken%5D=8e038904b41c77ca99ac2f3ea2799319940bac4210f478ae89a42570e3f96ece&format=llm_user) ## Top Zend Guard Alternatives - [Laravel](https://www.g2.com/products/laravel/reviews) - 4.7/5.0 (147 reviews) - [Angular](https://www.g2.com/products/angular/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (155 reviews) - [CodeIgniter](https://www.g2.com/products/codeigniter/reviews) - 4.4/5.0 (54 reviews)