PHP Code Obfuscator?

On Fri, 16 Feb 2001, Joe Sheble aka Wizaerd wrote: > Is there anything that evaluates PHP code and checks for optimization? Not > like the Zend Optimizer, but one that checks for things such as variables > that were defined but never used, repeated variables, unnecessary > statements or constructs? Basically a code cleaner such as C, C++, Java, > etc all have? And, on a related (but maybe not really) note. Is there anything like a PHP code obfuscator sort of like the old C shroud? I'm looking at something that reads a PHP script, looks at all include files it depends on, and then goes through them all and changes function names, class names (if any... i still write only functions... despite java and C++ experience, getting conservative in my old age), parameters and local variables? I could go with the Zend tools, I suppose. but there isn't enough money here for that yet (third-world... who can afford software that costs the same as the salaries of 8 to 10 programmers?). someday... in the meantime, well, i'd rather use someone else's tool than spend a month or so hacking out my own. i'm aware that such a tool would not work as simplistically as i've said above. that's just an example :). of course i'm aware that the thing would have to go through my entire codebase and use a common symbol table/translation table for all files in the codebase :). tiger -- Gerald Timothy Quimpo tiger@kami.com http://members.xoom.com/TigerQuimpo entia non sunt multiplicanda veritas liberabit vos praetere necessitatem mene sakhet ur-seveh