note 38703 added to function.ereg-replace

I'm really getting tired of spammers, so here's a nice solution for all of you to stop spam spiders crawling your sites and collecting your e-mail addresses. Please note, that I'm quite new to using regular expressions, so I used another example and modified it to work for me. There could be errors - I can't guarantee that it will work correctly always, but it works for me. $myemail = 'test@testdomain.com'; $output_email = ereg_replace ('([_a-zA-z0-9\-]+(\.[_a-zA-z0-9\-]+)*)\@ ([_a-zA-z0-9\-]{1,})+(\.[a-zA-z]{1,3})+', '<script>var a,b,c,d,e;a=\'<a href="mai\';b = \'\1\';c = \'\">\';a+= \'lto:\';b+= \'@\';e = \'</a>\';b+= \'\3\4\';document.write(a+b+c+b+e);</script>', $myemail); This will output a javascript code that will produce correct html output for the browser to correctly handle e-mail mailto: links, but still making them "invisible" to spam spiders! Here's the result: <script>var a,b,c,d,e;a='<a href="mai';b = 'test';c = '\">';a+= 'lto:';b+= '@';e = '</a>';b+= 'testdomain.com';document.write(a+b+c+b+e);</script> E.g. from the browser's point of view this is interpreted as a normal <a href="mailto:test@testdomain.com">test@testdomain.com</a> You can see it working in reality at http://www.motion-hosting.com (it has been formatted to look nice there). Hope this helps you to prevent spam/junk mail getting in your inbox! Best Regards: Bogomil Alexandrov ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.ereg-replace.php Edit -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=edit+38703 Delete -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+38703&report=yes Reject -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=reject+38703&report=yes Search -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php