Re: protecting email addresses on a web site

On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 16:29, ash@ashleysheridan.co.uk <ash@ashleysheridan.co.uk> wrote: > Sorry for top post on phone. > > Depending on the type of site and location an email address might be legally required. For > example, a business website in the UK requires a value email address to be made accessible to all > your visitors, which includes blind people, so no image-only addresses. > > Spam is just a fact of life now, and the only real method of protection is a decent spam > filter. <?php /** * Just hacked this together for your usage now. It's * a very basic implementation of a graphical display * of an email address (or any text, for that matter). * This can still easily be picked up by harvesters that * employ OCR, but beggars cannot be choosers. Well, * they can, but they really shouldn't. I mean, seriously, * there they are, just hoping and praying for a handout, * and when it finally comes, they bitch and moan that * I don't have any apples that didn't fall into the * sewer and sit there for a week that one time I donated * food to the food kitchen because I wanted this girl * to like me but it turned out she was a lesbian so * I just wasted the gas in the first place and my * car smelled like homeless people and crap-flavored * apples for three weeks. */ function drawEmail($email) { /** * Set the width/height of the image. */ $im = imagecreate(220,20); /** * Define the colors to be used, using RGB values. */ $black = imagecolorallocate($im,0,0,0); $white = imagecolorallocate($im,255,255,255); /** * Fill the image with a chosen color. */ imagefill($im,0,0,$white); /** * Calculate the text size to be used. */ $px = (((imagesx($im) - 7.5) * strlen($string)) / 2); /** * Write $email in calculated size with chosen color. */ imagestring($im,3,$px,9,$email,$black); /** * Output the image. */ header("Content-type: image/png"); imagepng($im); /** * Garbage clean-up, pass-through the status bool. */ return imagedestroy($im); } drawEmail('danbrown@php.net'); ?> -- </Daniel P. Brown> Dedicated Servers, Cloud and Cloud Hybrid Solutions, VPS, Hosting (866-) 725-4321 http://www.parasane.net/