So I have a fairly large system which we have encoded with Zend Guard. As this pretty badly messes up any SVN control, its a bit of a pain to deploy / make changes.

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Does anyone know if its possible to use the Zend Studio FTP editing to decode and edit files that have been encoded? When I open them it says

If you click yes, it just opens the raw encoded file. I have both Zend Guard / Studio installed on my system, and in preferences both apps point to the other so they know they are installed. Seems a bit of a pain if it wont do this.

I can browse the files in Zend Guard and then open in Zend Studio, but this will only let me edit files in the output location, which is not on the live server

FYI I am using Zend Studio 5.5.1 (not latest).

NOTE: I want to be able to edit encoded files from a live FTP via Zend Studio, not what is mentioned here - http://files.zend.com/help/Zend-Studio/opening_and_editing_zend_guard_projects_in_neon.htm which is already mentioned above

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What you are asking for in NOT a feature of Zend Studio nor would it ever be one. Files are encoded By Zend Guard for security reasons. If Zend just allowed them to be unencoded from within Studio that would render Guard pretty much ineffective for the ISV's that use it.

You should work with the original source files before they are run through Guard and encode before transferring to the server. If you do not have the original source files then you should probably be contacting the party that does ..

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We have a website maintained by an old employee and it appears it's encoded by Zend Guard including all backups.

I know a little about Zend Optimizer, but never considered it for source protection as I know in the end the bytecode will need to be decoded for the interpreter, and was sure people easily decode optimized files using some software.

Now I need to decode some files and I can't find anything but some 'paid services'. We have the ownership of the code and are locked out now for any changes and debugging. How can I decode our files back?

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Flow chart upon immediate standing of cardiac disease. The entire point of the very expensive software tool Zend Guard is to encrypt code so that it can not be decoded. That is the point.

If obfuscation is not on, then there is a possibility that you may be able to get a professional to get the code back, less comments and formatting by means of hacking the code engine. If obfuscation is on, then it's easier to rewrite it to be honest.

Have a read of this article from the Zend site, I know it is a biased source but they are right: http://forums.zend.com/viewtopic.php?f=57&t=2242

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