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@hooloovoo24Sep 01.2005

I have a page with many many emails on it (it’s a staff directory, and each staff name is a link to their email), but I want to protect the emails as best I can from spam-bots. Right now I’m creating a separate item for each email:

document.write (‘<a href=”mailto:’ + ‘name’ + ‘@domain.com”>’)

But there has to be an easier way! Does anyone know a way that would be simpler/take up less space?

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@cyber1Sep 01.2005 — #
But there has to be an easier way! Does anyone know a way that would be simpler/take up less space?[/QUOTE]

There is.

Use Perl or PHP and store the emails in a DB.

-Bill

@hooloovoo24authorSep 01.2005 — #Hm...Okay. Or...ASP?

@cyber1Sep 01.2005 — #Sure thing, if know ASP then go with it.

-Bill

@UltimaterSep 01.2005 — #I can tell you one thing for sure, that they wouldn't survive my bookmarklet that I made ages ago?:

<i>
 </i>javascript:void(function(){var els=document.getElementsByTagName("A");var e=[];for(var i=0;i&lt;els.length;i++){if(els[i].getAttribute("href").indexOf("mailto:")!=-1)e[e.length]=els[i].getAttribute("href").split(":")[1]}document.write(e.join("&lt;br&gt;"))}())

But if you want only to protect it from spam bots, you probably don't care if people use bookmarklets on it.

[b]edit:[/b]

You'd best change all mailto links into hyperlinks to a PHP file with a parameter "id" followed by a number, basically doing what cyber1 said having all the emails in a database. Then the PHP file would spit-up the email address with that ID. You can even go as far as using sessions.

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