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Zend Guard Preferences

Zend Guard protects your commercial PHP 5 and PHP 5.3 applications from reverse engineering, unauthorized customization, unlicensed use and redistribution.

The Zend Guard Preferences page allows you to set Zend Guard's location so that it can be accessed by Zend Studio.

The Zend Guard Preferences page is accessed from Window | Preferences | PHP | Zend Guard.

Zend Guard preferences page

Instructions on how to complete a procedure

To configure your Zend Guard's location:

Click Browse.
Find the location of your Zend Guard installation and click Open.
Click OK to apply your settings.

The connection will be made between Zend Studio and Zend Guard.

Zend Guard's functionality can now be accessed from Zend Studio by clicking the Encode Project icon on the main toolbar -or- going to Project menu and selecting Encode Project.

See the Zend Guard Integration topic for more information.

For more information on Zend Guard and to download a trial version, please visit: http://www.zend.com/en/products/guard.

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