Re: echo text - anti-spam-spider measure

[John Taylor-Johnston <John.Taylor-Johnston@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Neat, and thnaks.
How spam-spider-proof is it? I will try this though.
But I will also try it with "mailto:"; in entities as well.
Thanks!
John

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<a href="mailto:&#109;&#101;@&#115;&#111;&#109;&#101;&#119;&#104;&#101;&#114;&#101;.&#99;&#111;&#109;";>&#109;&#101;@&#115;&#111;&#109;&#101;&#119;&#104;&#101;&#114;&#101;.&#99;&#111;&#109;</a>
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Casey Chu wrote:
> It works. =P I tested it.
>
> Try it here! =P
>
> http://themfund.com/snippets/test.php
>
> On 2/27/07, Casey Chu <heavyccasey@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I'm not sure with both of your questions. I'm too lazy to try.
> >
> > Untested: But to encode it, you would use
> >
> > preg_replace_callback('~([\d\w])~', create_function('$a', 'return
> > "&#".ord($a[0]).";";'), $theEmail);
> >
> > Hopefully that works?
> >
> > On 2/27/07, John Taylor-Johnston
> > <John.Taylor-Johnston@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > How do I encode it? And would the href tag work?
> > >
> > > Casey Chu wrote:
> > > > ^ So put that into a <a href> tag.
> > > >
> > > > On 2/27/07, Casey Chu <heavyccasey@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > >> Try using Javascript? Or use all entities? For example:
> > > >> mailto:php-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx would turn into
> > > >> 
> > &#109;&#97;&#105;&#108;&#116;&#111;&#58;&#112;&#104;&#112;&#45;&#103;&#101;&#110;&#101;&#114;&#97;&#108;&#64;&#108;&#105;&#115;&#116;&#115;&#46;&#112;&#104;&#112;&#46;&#110;&#101;&#116; 
> >
> > > >>
> > > >>
> > > >>
> > > >>
> > > >> On 2/27/07, John Taylor-Johnston
> > > >> <John.Taylor-Johnston@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > >> > I need an anti-spam-spider measure for my site. Too many 
> > addresses are
> > > >> > getting raked. In once instance, I created a flash page:
> > > >> > http://erasethis.glquebec.org/English/contact.htm
> > > >> > But I just don't have the time to create a flash image for every
> > > >> single
> > > >> > instance, most of which come from dynamically printed PHP 
> > pages from a
> > > >> > MySQL database.
> > > >> >
> > > >> > Could I dynamically create a flash image, input the email and 
> > tell the
> > > >> > flash image to mailto:the@xxxxxxxxxxx?
> > > >> >
> > > >> > Do anyone have a solution? Does one already exist?
> > > >> >
> > > >> > My idea was to create a PHP script and output to a png. But I 
> > see many
> > > >> > problems, including:
> > > >> >
> > > >> > 1) How do I avoid echoing the email address in the <a href=""> 
> > tag?
> > > >> > 2) How would I write a png that would be long and high enough?
> > > >> > 3) How would the same script display the png?
> > > >> >
> > > >> > In short, I can't see far enough how to do this and avoid
> > > >> spider-raking
> > > >> > in the HTML or header the content of the image.
> > > >> >
> > > >> > Any advice, code or input would be appreciated,
> > > >> > John
> > > >> >
> > > >> > <a href="<?php
> > > >> >
> > > >> > #what do I put here?
> > > >> > $mydata->email = "me@xxxxxxxxxxxxx";
> > > >> > echo $??????????;
> > > >> >
> > > >> > ?>"><img src="<?php
> > > >> > |header('Content-type: image/png');|
> > > >> > #How do I display the image?
> > > >> >
> > > >> > $mydata->email = "me@xxxxxxxxxxxxx";
> > > >> > echo $??????????;
> > > >> >
> > > >> > ?>" width="???" height="???">
> > > >> >
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