# pk-fr/yakpro-po

YAK Pro - Php Obfuscator

Repository: https://github.com/pk-fr/yakpro-po
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/yakpro-po
Homepage: http://www.php-obfuscator.com
Language: PHP
License: NOASSERTION
License Family: other
Topics: php, obfuscation, php-obfuscator, obfuscator
Last push: 2026-05-16T14:20:16+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 65/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 82, release rhythm 23, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4153, "days_push": 109, "days_rel": 356, "gap_med": 112.5, "n_releases_24m": 3}
- flags: no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1574, forks 413 (observed 2026-08-28T04:05:05.693008+00:00)

## What it is
YAK Pro - Php Obfuscator is a free, open-source CLI tool that obfuscates pure PHP source code using the PHP-Parser library. It removes comments and indentation, scrambles names, converts control structures to if/goto statements, obfuscates string literals, and shuffles statements to make code hard for humans to understand.

## Use cases
- obfuscate php source code before distributing a project
- protect php application logic from being understood or modified
- scramble variable, function, and class names in php files
- recursively obfuscate an entire php project directory
- remove comments and indentation from php code
- make php scripts difficult to reverse engineer

## When to choose
- you distribute php code and want to hinder reverse engineering
- you need a free, configurable, MIT-licensed php obfuscator
- you want incremental, timestamp-based re-obfuscation of changed files
- your codebase is pure php without embedded html

## When to avoid
- your php files contain html with embedded php
- you need real security rather than deterrence (obfuscation is not encryption)
- you need to obfuscate other languages than php
- you require commercial support or guaranteed compatibility with very old php versions on the 3.x branch

## Facets
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: active
- function: parser, developer-tools, security
- domain: developer-tools, security, programming-languages
- platform: cli, php, cross-platform
- tags: obfuscator, php-obfuscation, source-code-protection, code-scrambling

## Member repositories
- pk-fr/yakpro-po (main) score 65

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:05.693008+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T03:57:51.594229+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/pk-fr/yakpro-po (fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:05.693008+00:00, sha 3bac2860f093)
  - homepage: http://www.php-obfuscator.com (fetched 2026-08-29T11:27:58.677835+00:00, sha 1d0bd778397b)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.