QUOTE(rvalkass @ Jul 23 2005, 08:10 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. That won't work because the output of it won't be encrypted...it'll still show what the email address is....

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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:

and then in your CSS file


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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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.

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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?

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

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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

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