Script triggers

[serambin]

What is the best way to activate a PHP server-side script from a client side trigger.

For example, I want to encrypt email addresses to reduce spam. I have used the hex code type and find that harvesters have no trouble decoding them. What I want to do is use a trigger like onClick to call a function on a PHP page and return the email address.

Would a javascript be the best way or is there a solution in php?

TIA

Stan

[diego25]

Why not have a hidden field in the form (to send the e-mail) that has the ID number of an e-mail. Then when the user submits the form with the e-mail message, your PHP script will look up the ID from a database, get the e-mail, and use the mail() function to send the e-mail.

Diego

[serambin]

Thanks, that would work, but i'm trying to get a solution thats simple enough for beginners to use.

My idea was to hex code an address and store the whole mailto: string in a php function on a php page in a htaccess limited area. The inclusion of the php code would only be on user demand so spiders would not see the mailto: or address at all. This way I don't need a database or the create db file and setup. Just a line of code with the onclick type trigger and the mail.php with the address in a string variable to attivate the mail composer on the users email program. Up pops the composer with the email address in the To: box.

Stan

[diego25]

Well.....you could try:

header('Header: mailto:[e-mail]');

but I really really doubt that will work. If that doesn't work, then you can't do it the way you want.

Diego