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Obtaining Jomres
Where to Find Jomres
These notes apply if you want to obtain the demo or a full copy of Jomres.
You can obtain Jomres by visiting http://www.jomres.net/ and registering a userid and password at the My Account -> Registration page, accessible via the main menu. I am not going to describe to you the individual steps you need to take; it's a fairly standard shopping cart that most people should be familiar with so I will not insult your intelligence.
When you have placed your order (the order value will be 0.00 if you've ordered a demo license key) you will find that an invoice has been created against your account. View the invoice to purchase Jomres (if you are purchasing a full license) Once you've chosen your payment method and made your payment (regardless of whether or not you've purchased a full license or a trial license) you will now find that a license key has been created for you and Jomres will be available to download when you view your license. This key is important, save a copy of it somewhere, as it leads to the first point that you need to learn about Jomres: when you get a license to use Jomres, you're actually purchasing the key, it's the key that determines how long you can use the license for. Jomres itself is the same regardless of whether or not you have a full or trial license, Developer or Solo version.
Downloading Jomres
Before you download Jomres, you will need to decide which flavour you will need. You can have either Zend encryption or ionCube encryption. Which you choose depends on your server configuration so if in doubt, please ask your hosts. If you can use either then it is recommended that you use the ionCube encoded version.
Jomres is available as either a web installation, executable installer, or as a zip file. The recommended installation method is the web installer. This is because Jomres has features that require that it can overwrite some of it's files, and the most reliable way of ensuring that this is possible is by performing the initial installation via the web installer.
What are the Loaders? (applies to ionCube encoded versions of Jomres)
The loaders are used to encrypt two files within Jomres. If we didn't encrypt some files then it would be trivial for anybody with a little PHP knowledge to bypass the licensing system and use Jomres for free. In the past we have used other encryption software that didn't require loaders but it didn't take long for decrypted copies of Jomres to start circulating through the warez sites dotted around the web. To enable us to continue providing updates we have been forced to implement a license system and encryption.
The first encrypted file is "install_jomres.php". This file is encrypted purely to ensure that any encoder issues are detected during the install phase, rather than later on when you want to actually use Jomres. The other encrypted file is "integration.php". All other files within Jomres are open source. This means that you can see the source, and edit them if you need to.
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