Email address ina form

rmcat

I am new to HTML and PHP and have set up a merchant site. I have created a form that will allow a customer to register with my site. For now the info will be emailed to me until I figure out how to get it directly to MySQL. My question is how I keep my email address from being discovered by spammers (I have read a few articles indicating I should do this). Currently the submit button will send the data via email to me and if you view the source code for the web page you will see my address. Thanks!

dagon

if its a php form you wont see if you view source.

rmcat

Thanks. I built hte form in HTML. It is at http://www.holeinoneshirt.com/register.html. How does creating it in PHP hide the email address? is the form a seperate file that is on my server and called into this one? Thanks..r

dagon

php is not displayed to user, its processed server side. you can submit to a separate php file that sends the email, or submit to the same page and have php in there that sends the email.

looking at your current form your address is not revealed, only your user name.

benracer

The HTML form can be shown to spam bots but it contains nothing that is usefull to them (just the source code), spam bots look for the mailto: tag and then capture the email address. When the form is sent the data is sent to the sever so it cannot be retreived by anything else apart from what you do with it after.

mark_kccs

There are some javascripts that will help to hide the email address, such as:

function AntiSpamEmailer(a, b, c) {
var mailer=(a + b + c);
location.href = "mailto:" + mailer;
return true;
}

onClick="return AntiSpamEmailer('xxx@', 'xxx', '.com')"

Not sure how well this will work though?