Thread: Displaying email addresses

We've got a contact section our site listing out names and phone numbers along with email addresses. I'm wondering what's the best way to combat spam bots from copying these addresses down? Should I use something like:

firstname.lastname [at] whatever.com

??

Appreciate some feedback.

You could place the email address inside a script but if you are like me (lazy) just add an image that states the email address.

How about a contact form?

I used to use a simple php script to handle it ie. on the page you had user => script which converts to user@domain

It stopped a lot of the junk

Originally Posted by Cormac

You could place the email address inside a script but if you are like me (lazy) just add an image that states the email address.

How about a contact form?

Images aren't really an option because of usability.

On the contact form, not too sure how I'd make that work inside our existing CMS. Will look into it.

Originally Posted by blacknight

I used to use a simple php script to handle it ie. on the page you had user => script which converts to user@domain

It stopped a lot of the junk

How does that work? The script is parsed and the email is shown normally anyway?

Instead of a mailto link you use a href one... The script does the conversion for you

Oh right, I see what ya mean.

Something like this should do it:

PHP Code:

email: <a title="info" rel="domain.ie" href="mailto:info[at symbol]domain.ie" onclick="this.href='mailto:'+this.getAttribute('title')+'@'+this.getAttribute('rel')"><span>Send Us an Email</span></a> 


Originally Posted by Cormac

You could place the email address inside a script...

here's one I found a few years back and have been using it eversince. Can't remember where I got it but no doubt on some helpful tutorial site

<script type="text/javascript">

<!--
var username = "name";
var hostname = "domain.xx";
var linktext = username + "@" + hostname;
document.write("<a href=" + "mail" + "to:" + username +
"@" + hostname + ">" + linktext + "</a>")
//-->
</script>

Probably similar to ideas already mentioned above but it's a nice little script I think.