CVIII. PHP bytecode Compiler

简介

警告

本扩展模块是实验性的。本模块的行为,包括其函数的名称以及其它任何关于此模块的文档可能会在没有通知的情况下随 PHP 以后的发布而改变。使用本扩展模块风险自担。

Bcompiler was written for two reasons:

To encode entire script in a proprietary PHP application
To encode some classes and/or functions in a proprietary PHP application
To enable the production of php-gtk applications that could be used on client desktops, without the need for a php.exe.
To do the feasibility study for a PHP to C converter

The first of these goals is achieved using the bcompiler_write_header(), bcompiler_write_file() and bcompiler_write_footer() functions. The bytecode files can be written as either uncompressed or plain. To use the generated bytecode, you can simply include it with include or require statements.

The second of these goals is achieved using the bcompiler_write_header(), bcompiler_write_class(), bcompiler_write_footer(), bcompiler_read(), and bcompiler_load() functions. The bytecode files can be written as either uncompressed or plain. The bcompiler_load() reads a bzip compressed bytecode file, which tends to be 1/3 of the size of the original file.

To create EXE type files, bcompiler has to be used with a modified sapi file or a version of PHP which has been compiled as a shared library. In this scenario, bcompiler reads the compressed bytecode from the end of the exe file.

bcompiler can improve performance by about 30% when used with uncompressed bytecodes only. But keep in mind that uncompressed bytecode can be up to 5 times larger than the original source code. Using bytecode compression can save your space, but decompression requires much more time than parsing a source. bcompiler also does not do any bytecode optimization, this could be added in the future...

In terms of code protection, it is safe to say that it would be impossible to recreate the exact source code that it was built from, and without the accompanying source code comments. It would effectively be useless to use the bcompiler bytecodes to recreate and modify a class. However it is possible to retrieve data from a bcompiled bytecode file - so don't put your private passwords or anything in it.

安装

short installation note:

  • You need at least PHP 4.3. for the compression to work

  • To install on PHP 4.3 and later at the unix command prompt type pear install bcompiler

  • To install on Windows, until the binary package distribution mechanism is finished please search the archives of the pear-general mailing list for pre-built packages. (or send an email to it if you could not find a reference)

  • To install on older versions you need to make some slight changes to the build.

  • untar the bcompiler.tgz archive into php4/ext.(Get it directly from PECL http://pecl.php.net/get/bcompiler)

  • If the new directory is now called something like bcompiler-0.x, then you should rename it to bcompiler (except you only want to build it as self-contained php-module).

  • If you are using versions before PHP 4.3, the you will need to copy the Makefile.in.old to Makefile.in and config.m4.old to config.m4.

  • run phpize in ext/bcompiler

  • run ./buildconf in php4

  • run configure with --enable-bcompiler (and your other options)

  • make; make install

  • that's it.

Contact Information

If you have comments, bugfixes, enhancements or want to help developing this beast, you can drop me a mail at alan_k@php.net. Any help is very welcome.

目录
bcompiler_load_exe -- Reads and creates classes from a bcompiler exe file
bcompiler_load -- Reads and creates classes from a bz compressed file
bcompiler_parse_class -- Reads the bytecodes of a class and calls back to a user function
bcompiler_read -- Reads and creates classes from a filehandle
bcompiler_write_class -- Writes an defined class as bytecodes
bcompiler_write_constant -- Writes a defined constant as bytecodes
bcompiler_write_exe_footer -- Writes the start pos, and sig to the end of a exe type file
bcompiler_write_file -- Writes a php source file as bytecodes
bcompiler_write_footer -- Writes the single character \x00 to indicate End of compiled data
bcompiler_write_function -- Writes an defined function as bytecodes
bcompiler_write_functions_from_file -- Writes all functions defined in a file as bytecodes
bcompiler_write_header -- Writes the bcompiler header

add a note add a note User Contributed Notes
cdsheen+bencoder at gmail dot com
25-Jul-2006 08:58
Here's a script to act as a front-end for bcompiler, which may be very similar to the eA ones:

http://bbs.giga.net.tw/bencoder.php

BENCODER v1.1 - Encode your PHP script using bcompiler

Usage: bencoder [-f] -o FILE    file1.php
       bencoder [-f] -o OUTDIR  file1.php file2.php ...
       bencoder [-f] -o OUTDIR  -a SRCDIR  [-s SUFFIX] [-c] [-r]

  -f        : force overwriting even if the target exists
  -o FILE  : the file name to write the encoded script
             (default to '-encoded.php' suffix)
  -o OUTDIR : the directory to write all encoded files

  -a SRCDIR : encode all files in this source directory
  -s SUFFIX : encode the files with the SUFFIX extension only (default: php)
  -c        : copy files those shouldn't be encoded (no by default)
shannah at sfu dot ca
24-May-2006 06:44
>the special constant __FILE__ cannot be handled correctly by bcompiler
> (it will always contain the name of the original file that was compiled).

I would think that this is the preferred behavior anyways since the compilation should be independent from the source code.  I would want to be able to compile any part of my source code without having to worry if any constants will change as a result of it.  Hence it is better for __FILE__ to contain the name of the original file that was compiled.
arplynn at gmail dot com
28-Apr-2006 11:49
PHP seems to choke on trying to compile PHP5 classes with the private, protected or public modifiers. Additionally, when including files with properly compiled classes on PHP5, it works fine but when php tries to exit it throws a segmentation fault.

It's just not a great idea to use bcompiler for anything other than functions on PHP5, at least for now.
tda at example dot com
07-Feb-2006 09:50
Creating a function after checking if a function exists using function_exists will result in a "Zero Sized Reply" error.

this does NOT work any longer:
if (!function_exists("file_get_contents")) {
       function file_get_contents($filename, $use_include_path = 0)
       { ...define your own function here... }
}

Apache returns: "Zero Sized Reply" after compilation.
alan at akbkhome dot com
28-Oct-2005 10:32
Note:
the special constant __FILE__ cannot be handled correctly by bcompiler (it will always contain the name of the original file that was compiled). There is no known way around this, as it is converted to a string by the Zend engine.