I remember receiving an email from the gang at phpAudit a while back about a new product that a partner or someone had just released.

This allowed you to go in and create installers for your PHP software using their web based software. You could add all sorts of options and features (like have it do some type of error checking, etc).

I'll be darned if I can remember the name, and I can't find anything remotely related on Google or on phpAudit's site.

Can anyone help refresh my memory? Thanks :lovewht:

Duh - why do I always find what I'm looking for 10 seconds after I type :blush:

BuildExec - http://buildexec.com

<edit> Bummer, looks like this is no longer available :(

<edit2> Does anyone know any similar products available?

If you created something in PHP already, why not just take it a step further and write an installer? I don't get teh purpose of this...

You would definitely get the purpose after you've created 20, 30, 40 installers...It gets to be extremely tedious....

I think that's a nifty idea...

You would definitely get the purpose after you've created 20, 30, 40 installers...It gets to be extremely tedious....

I think that's a nifty idea...

I'm with scriptist. Just write a generic installer that can service any platform, I think this is the route chosen by most developers. I would never entrust license auditing or installation mechanisms to third party companies.. With PHP's innate ability to download/upload files, and the many encryption resources available to it, it shouldn't be much of a hurdle.

Sure...you CAN create your own....but why? Just upload some files and that place did it for you. Time is money...so a timesaver is a money saver........

Good idea...

but why?As above, when you subcontract these things to externally managed companies or individuals, you are entrusting your company's work, to theirs. Should their deployment mechanisms suffer a critical flaw, where perhaps your licensing, distribution integrity, or security are compromised, the repercussions will be most severe!

I would then agree with you, time is indeed money, and the time spent writing an installer, would likely be shorter than any time spent in court for a settlement, or time spent feverishly re-engineering a distribution scheme when your product is live and providing deferential support to the demand you've already created. The cost of hangups and legal fees will by far exceed the day or two it took to devise an installer pre-release.

Besides, perhaps on a personal note - our code is sacred to us. Why put it in a stranger's hands?

Actually, I used a free trial of the build exec way back when it first started and IIRC you didn't upload anything to their servers. They did have an "enterprise" solution that allowed them to do it for you, but I was looking for more of DIY.

All you had to do was enter field names, text, and error responses, the sql you wanted it to execute, and it would generate the code for you, in a nicely layed out format. No files were uploaded, none of your source code was given.

Of course I could write my own :) But with my time as limited as it is if I find a tool that will help me speed things up by a day or two, well :gthumb:

The only other one I am aware of is Ioncube's package foundry. (http://www.ioncube.com/ipf/index.php)