I’m investigating a commercial third party reporting app written in PHP. The source code is encoded. Has anyone had any success integrating an encoded app into a Yii website? For a single page, I’m thinking that a static page would work using renderPartial. Loading the page in a frame might even work if I need to include a simplified header with menu options. The problem is that links from the third party page to other pages in the app I’m guessing won’t work correctly.
I plan on doing some testing later, but I thought I’d see if anyone had already been down this path.
Encoded means the source code of the classes/functions files are encoded and that is all, but this doesn’t mean you can’t use those classes/functions to generate the output in the way you want.
You need to have some kind of user guide explaining the available classes/functions of the product you bought.
If you don’t have the needed flexibility to integrate the third party tool into your app, then simply, don’t buy it, go look for something else that gives you the flexibility you need.
I agree with you in principle. The problem is finding a decent reporting app written in PHP. Worst case scenario: I won’t integrate it. It’s not strictly required, I’d just prefer to find a way of doing it.
