PHP Obfuscator?

From: Agelmar (ifetteNOSPAM_at_comcast.net)
Date: 12/31/03 

Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2003 02:38:32 -0500

Does anyone know of a good, reliable PHP obfuscator, preferably one that
doesn't cost an arm and a leg? I tried Mike's gzen encoder, however I had
problems with included files. (e.g. I have a file vars.inc.php that includes
sql_connect.inc.php, in which a connection to mysql is made, and then in the
top-level files I do mysql_query($query, $MySQL_Link) [$MySQL_Link is the
connection made in sql_connect.inc.php], and I get an error about 'invalid
link resource' after using the gzen obfuscator...)

I've tried about a dozen that I found on google (yes, i tried pobs, but the
resultant code had syntax errors, and god knows I'm not going to dig through
*that* to find syntax errors!), so now I'm turning to others for help ^-^

I'd like not to have to buy the Zend encoder... ack...

Thanks in advance.