email address format

[trevor]

hopefully quick question:

i have email addresses stored in my database in the format:
name@wherever.com
but i want to show it on my site as:
name AT wherever DOT com

what would be the easiest way to do this?

thanks,
Trevor

ps - what happened to the irc chat?

[bdl]

You might try str_replace().

PHP Code:

$email = "bdl@codenewbie.com";
$email = str_replace("@", " AT ", $email);
$email = str_replace(".", " DOT ", $email); 


[bdonalds]

You may also want to add something else to your obscured address as well. I think a lot of the address harvesting bots are wise enough to parse the AT and DOT, since it is a fairly common way to mask addresses.

[Admin]

what if my email address was

matt.mcinvale@z57.com ?

then it would be

matt DOT mcinvale AT z57 DOT com

that would be kinda silly looking.

[bdonalds]

Originally posted by Admin
what if my email address was

matt.mcinvale@z57.com ?

then it would be

matt DOT mcinvale AT z57 DOT com

that would be kinda silly looking.

The reason for masking addresses is to prevent e-mail address harvesting web robots from snagging it.

Bryan

[Admin]

yeah, that was fairly obvious.

[bdonalds]

oh...I thought you were asking why you would want to make your address lok so silly.

[Admin]

i was just bringing up the fact that you can have . in the address name.

[bdonalds]

Ahhh! I had a total brain fart....I finally figured out what you meant!

Os if you want to leave the username part alone, just split it at the "@" and do the replace on the rest...

<?
$fullEmail="foo.bar@foobar.com";
$tempArray=split("@",$fullEmail);
$maskedEmail=$tempArray[0] . " AT " . str_replace("."," DOT ",$tempArray[1]);
?>

Bryan