Behind all applications, video games, and web browsers that do all you ask through a mouse and keyboard are dozens of lines of code. It takes a lot of time to learn programming, let alone building a fully functional program.

There’s no program out there that has no issues whatsoever. On the other hand, developers create patches and updates to fill in any missing features or fix broken functions. An update consists of parts of code being modified or completely changed with something that fits better.

Not only does programming require a lot of time but also effort, as well as a heavy load of attention. With this in mind, there’s no reason to give others the possibility of taking advantage of your work. As such, we prepared a few steps you can follow to make your code unreadable to humans, thus keeping your project intact, a method known as code obfuscation.

Quick code obfuscation

Step 1: Download, install, and run Code Protector.

Step 2: Switch to the HTML Converter to transform HTML into PHP, JavaScript, or PAS.

Step 3: Right-click empty space and choose to Load From File.

Step 4: Select your conversion option and copy the new code to a text editor.

Step 5: In the Escaping/Encoding tab, right-click and load your code from file.

Step 6: Press Encode to make it unreadable. Copying the obfuscated code in the upper pane and hitting Decode reverses the process.

Step 7: Turn to the PHP Protector tab. Load the code from file via the right-click context menu.

Step 8: Select level of security and press Protect to toughen your PHP scripts.