Encapsulating e-mails for usability and spam protection
Tuesday 26 October 2010 1:15:03 am
Step 1 : Setting up template.ini.append.php
Recently I wanted to make e-mail addresses "uncatchable" at a site to avoid crawlers that collect them, a solution was to configure sitesettings/your-site/template.ini.append.php and add under [WashSettings] the following:
# Replacements strings for the . and @ in an email # Used to display emails in a way that SPAM engines # cannot fetch automatically EmailDotText= [punto] EmailAtText= [@]
Adding such definitions e-mail addresses become something like "myname [@] domain [punto] com", you can also change it to the conventional "at" and "dot".
Hint: You can leave spaces before and after each definition “ [punto] ” or “ [@] ” to achieve spaces within the e-mail sequence
The code generated as html by eZ Publish looks something like this:
<a href="mailto:myname@domain.com">myname [@] domain [punto] com</a>
This kind of sequence for an e-mail addresses is not always a straight-forward solution. Avoiding the mailto also keeps crawlers away, so with some jQuery code we can obtain a more interesting approach. You can still let the eZ Publish kernel handle the e-mail address generation but this time surrounded by the <div> that jQuery code will then handle later on when the page has loaded.
An example of template code :
{$owner_map.user_account.content.email|wash('email')}Will generate something like this:
myname [@] domain [punto] com
Wrapped around the div and adding an id, this will become:
<div id="mail">myname [@] domain [punto] com</div>