Symfony and Ioncube

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In symfony, encoded classes excluded from config_autoload_yml.php. Because when symfony found the classes and read the contents, symfony can not find the words that contain abstract class|interface, final class|interface, class (preg_match_all(‘~^\s*(?:abstract\s+|final\s+)?(?:class|interface)\s+(\w+)~mi’, $content, $classes);).

There is an easy way that can be used, although this method has some shortcomings. I’m using Symfony version 1.3beta, but in symfony 1.2 or 1.3alpha it can be applied.
Let’s get started…

1. Create config_handles.yml file, and put it in project config folder (sf_root_dir/config)

   config/autoload.yml:
     class: mysfAutoloadConfigHandler
   

2. Create mysfAutoloadConfigHandler class that extends sfAutoloadConfigHandler, override parseFile() function, and put it in the same folder with config_handlers.yml (sf_root_dir/config)

   <?php
   class mysfAutoloadConfigHandler extends sfAutoloadConfigHandler
   {
     static public function parseFile($path, $file, $prefix)
     {
       $mapping = array();
       $content = file_get_contents($file);
       preg_match_all('~^\s*(?:abstract\s+|final\s+)?(?:class|interface)\s+(\w+)~mi',
                            $content, $classes);
       if (count($classes[1]) == 0)
       {
         if (stristr($content, 'ioncube_loader') !== FALSE)
         {
           $explodes = explode('/', $file);
           $classphp = $explodes[count($explodes)-1];
           $classnames = explode('.', $classphp);
           $classname = $classnames[0];
           $classes = array('', array($classname));
         }
       }
       foreach ($classes[1] as $class)
       {
         $localPrefix = '';
         if ($prefix)
         {
            // FIXME: does not work for plugins installed with a symlink
            preg_match('~^'.str_replace('\*', '(.+?)', preg_quote(str_replace('/',
                            DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR, $path), '~')).'~', str_replace('/',
                            DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR, $file), $match);
            if (isset($match[$prefix]))
            {
              $localPrefix = $match[$prefix].'/';
            }
         }
         $mapping[$localPrefix.strtolower($class)] = $file;
       }
       return $mapping;
     }
   }
   

3. Edit setup() function in ProjectConfiguration.class.php file

   public function setup()
   {
      include_once(sfConfig::get('sf_root_dir').'/config/mysfAutoloadConfigHandler.class.php');
   
      //........
      $this->enablePlugins(.....);
     //
   }
   

But, the solution i proposed above still have some disadvantages:

1. Not just Class files, Helper files are also included in config_autoload_yml.php
2. Class name must have the same name with file name, for example: if you have a class named A (Class A), then your file should be named A (A.class.php)

PS:
Symfony libraries, log, cache and all the files in the config folder (project config folder, application config folder and modules config folder) is left unencrypted.