POBS stands for PHP Obfuscator / Obscurer. It is a free and open PHP program that makes PHP sourcecode almost impossible to read and edit for normal humans. Now you can deploy your application and feel pretty safe about it. How it works POBS replaces user-defined functionnames, variables and constants with a random value. *Really removes information from your sourcecode *Hard to reverse-engineer. *Cross-platform, cross PHP version. *Works with PHP cachers like APC and ZEND Cache