#18689 [Com]: php.net is getting trawled by spammers (yawn)

ID: 18689 Comment by: madsen@sjovedyr.dk Reported By: phpbug@botanicus.net Status: Open Bug Type: Website problem Operating System: l00n1x PHP Version: 4.2.2 New Comment: I don't see any problems in using obfuscated adresses, but don't make too much of an issue out of it... Why not just use something like the <table>-idea? The crawlers are scanning the HTML for adresses, and most of them won't find anything if it looks like this: someone<!-- bla -->@<!-- bla again -->example.com Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-08-11 11:31:00] jacques@php.net On the online user manual I see (http://www.php.net/manual/en/) at the bottom of that particular page there is: mj at php dot net We can easily do using something like above using the following code snipbit: $name = str_replace(array("@", "."), array(" at ", " dot "), $name); Maybe I'm going insane. I've found it from my guestbook code *G* ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-08-11 10:44:53] goba@php.net AFAIK there is no such function. What you write in as your email address is directly used for user note printouts... ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-08-11 10:35:05] jacques@php.net We could use that function from the PHP manual which converts the email addresses displayed on the web in a similar format to: jacques at php dot net I can grab the code from the phpweb and implement it here. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-08-11 08:19:50] mfischer@php.net What about using a table to display the address? <table><tr><td>user</td><td>randomobfuscate</td><td>domain.tld</td></tr></table> Btw, I like the image idea. But it doesn't have to be that cpu intensive, we could cache the images (create a md5 sum of the email address which acts as a filename or so). ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-08-02 12:21:48] sander@php.net AFAIK, we're talking only about the bugsystem, not about the annotation system or something else... The bugsystems relies on valid email addresses... IMO this is indeed a php.net website problem. Reopening. (BTW: the bugsystem doesn't get mirrored so that's not a problem) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The remainder of the comments for this report are too long. To view the rest of the comments, please view the bug report online at http://bugs.php.net/18689 -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=18689&edit=1