[morpheuz]

I've been doing my homework on this topic and all of the advice says drop it and just look into a commercial solution for protecting scripts, but I'm not sure I should do it. Part of the reason I have a hard time leaving obfuscation alone is because I think I can come up with a way to make it <_<... >_>...worthwhile (I know, silly). The end result would always be reversible I understand, but I still think some fun can be had, like making the decode process so annoying and such a cumbersome task that most would just give up at the mere thought of unscrambling your efforts. ^_^ I'll probably end up getting the ioncube encoder or something of the such anyway, and as foolish as security by obscurity may be I must say the idea of obfuscating scripts with the many ways to go about it is mighty intriguing to me.

Quick question. Would storing the source to php files in a MySQL database provide any form of relief from script theft?