Encrypt Your Email Address For Websites

eXtreme

Jul 22 2005, 05:29 PM

I've just found a great freebie that is VERY useful for all the people that mantain a website, and just hate to receive spam.

Usually the site webmaster always provide a link to his email address, to receive comments or complaints.

But there also exist email-harvesting robots, that are like google spiders, only that they crawl emails addresses, not websites.

So a simple: <a href="mailto:user@example.com" title="test">test</a> can get your INBOX full of spam, if you're unlucky.

Usually the best solution is not to display anything at all, but I think we all prefer the second best option, that is simply to encrypt the email address, but still make it readable to the user who's visiting the site.

And that's where Automatic Enkoderfrom comes.

Just input the basic fields, such as email address, the link text, and optionally the ALT text and the subject text.

It will then create the encrypted HTML code where you just copy-paste on your site, where you want your email address to appear.

Already tried, and it works excellent, and the biggest plus is that it's free.

truefusion

Jul 22 2005, 05:48 PM

You know there's another way of doing it, and that's by using the server-side include, php.

Lyon2

Jul 22 2005, 06:00 PM

There's tons of ways of protecting the emails from spammers, but this is a new one for me, so, thatnks, i'll try it.

eXtreme

Jul 22 2005, 06:36 PM

eheh, nice you like it Lyon2.

QUOTE(truefusion @ Jul 22 2005, 05:48 PM)

You know there's another way of doing it, and that's by using the server-side include, php.

truefusion, maybe you could help everyone by telling us that PHP solution, no?

Then we all could know atleast 2 possible options to protect the email address from spammers.

truefusion

Jul 22 2005, 09:07 PM

Welp, this is a way of doing an anti-spam feature in php. I'm sure there are other ways of doing it in php.

CODE

$anti_spam = '@';
$to_email = "email${anti_spam}host.com";

mayank

Jul 23 2005, 05:52 AM

QUOTE(truefusion @ Jul 23 2005, 02:37 AM)

Welp, this is a way of doing an anti-spam feature in php. I'm sure there are other ways of doing it in php.

CODE

$anti_spam = '@';
$to_email = "email${anti_spam}host.com";

well i am sure that this looks that it will work but i dont know how to apply this..if you can tell me that how will it apply it then it will be great otherwise i am thinking of using the encoding option (fearing of submiting the email address other website).

rvalkass

Jul 23 2005, 11:10 AM

On your webpage, where you want your email address to appear type:

CODE

<?php
$anti_spam = '@';
$to_email = "email$(anti_spam)host.com";
echo $to_email;
?>

Then save your webpage with a .php extension.

Inspiron

Jul 23 2005, 04:13 PM

http://www.directron.com/expressguide.html

This site uses javascript to encode email addresses. The encoded script can be easily decoded with some scripts that able to turn over javascript to display the real text in the encoded stream.

I use such encoding tools to encode my email address too, but I still recommand storing your email address in flash.
No programs or scripts are so advance to crack and heck into flash files to extract email addresses I should say...

karlo

Jul 23 2005, 04:44 PM

Here is the script that I made, I hope that you will like it.. it's in PHP...

CODE

<?php

/*
Secure Email Function by Juan Karlo Aquino de Guzman
Website: http://www.karlo.ph.tc and http://www.abs-cbn.ph.tc
E-mail: http://www.karlo.ph.tc/send.php

Usage: showEmail("support@microsoft.com",0); OR showEmail("support@microsoft.com",1); <-- example
Types:
0 = ordinary random
1 = more secure random

To include to a script:

include_once("email_secure.php");
*/

function showEmail($email,$type) {
if(!strstr($email,"@") || !strstr($email,".")) {
echo("<div align=\"center\" style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; color: white; background-color: black; padding: 4px;\">Your e-mail is invalid!</div>");
}else {
$email_split=split("@",$email);
if($type===0) {
$random1=str_shuffle(strtolower(metaphone(sha1(mt_rand(11111,99999)))));
$random2=str_shuffle(strtolower(metaphone(sha1(mt_rand(11111,99999)))));
$randomAT=str_shuffle(str_shuffle($random1).str_shuffle($random2));
}else {
$random1=str_shuffle(strtolower(metaphone(uniqid(md5(mt_rand(11111,99999))))));
$random2=str_shuffle(strtolower(metaphone(uniqid(md5(mt_rand(11111,99999))))));
$randomAT=str_shuffle(str_shuffle($random1).str_shuffle($random2));
}

$atSign=rawurlencode("@");
$first=rawurlencode($email_split[0]);
$second=rawurlencode($email_split[1]);
echo "<script language=\"javascript\" type=\"text/javascript\"></script>";
}
}

?>

Artanis

Jul 23 2005, 05:02 PM

But why would you put ur email for complains.. and stuff... if you are 24/7 put ur aim sn up as a support talk, if u dont want to do that, u know on aim u can have 2 sn's at one, put on eas asupport other one as chat...

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PhxStorks

Aug 22 2005, 03:45 AM

Here is another one that uses javascript... www.jracademy.com

The other option didn't seem to work for me (might be my wysiwyg website editor) as you could still see the "mailto" address at the bottom of the page when you hovered over it (even though I requested this say something else.)

This one I found puts numbers in that space instead or leaves it completely blank at the bottom.

I'm gonna try this out and see if it cuts down on the spam. I'm sure I'm already in a number of Spammers lists as I recieve about 5 emails a day wanting to sell me viagra or cialis! hahahahaha

skynet

Jul 26 2005, 11:53 AM

Thanks all for sharing the info!
I will try this on my new website!

Darker333

Jul 26 2005, 01:36 AM

You all know there is a more secure method.

1. Use a serverside script with php to secure any way to find an email.

2. The email they will send to will be set up so that it will delete spam, and with a word filter can destroy any foul mouthed emails! Then it will auto send to another email. I think this can be done using Outlook express plug-ins.

I will post up a more accurate way to do this once I find the guide. But you get the general idea?

truefusion

Jul 25 2005, 03:25 AM

I was away for a while, so i couldnt mention this.

The code i placed in my previous post was an anti-spam method for a form-to-email script. It's supposed to be used with the mail() function.

bjrn

Jul 24 2005, 11:08 AM

Those scripts all look quite complex. If you are hosted here on Trap17, you have access to PHP. Why not just make a contact form, so you don't have to show your address at all?

You can, if you want people to be able to get access to your email address, even make a form where they can input their own address and your script automatically sends them an email they can reply to...

A problem with javascript things is that it will break on people who have javascript switched off, which might be in the 10% region.

Anyway, one interesting method of hiding your email address on a webpage is using CSS. Yep, that's right, just CSS and nothing else. Say you have test@example.com as your email address, what you do is this:

CODE

<span class="email">moc.elpmaxe@tset</span>

and then in your CSS file

CODE

email {
unicode-bidi: bidi-override;
direction: rtl;
}

This will display as test@example.com on screen. Of course, you might have to add that copy/pasting the address won't work, since when you copy/paste, you'll get the undirected string: moc.elpmaxe@tset

This won't work for people who have ancient browsers or CSS switched off, obviously.

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