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# 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 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 



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