Dan_JB
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How to hide email addresses used with FormMail Pearl script and HTML form OPTION values
I have created an HTML form to work with the free FormMail 1.92 Pearl script (see http://www.scriptarchive.com/formmail.html). I want to send an email to the appropriate contact depending on the visitor's choice from a combo box, but I want to do this without allowing spam search engines any way to see the email addresses. I'm guessing there is a way to do this with Javascript and there may be other better ways such as customizing the Pearl script FormMail. I'm looking for code to do this easily and effectively! Thanks.
cb1393
If the email address is contained in code that is processed on the server side, I'm not sure that it would be viewable by bots unless you have it displayed on the page somewhere.
ASKER
To do that I would need to customize formmail.pl which is certainly a possiblity if I know what to change.
Currently I'm just using a simple HTML form with code like this (which I presume would be viewable by bots as it is just in the HTML code):
<SELECT NAME="recipient">
<OPTION VALUE="0" selected>-Select-</OPTION>
<OPTION VALUE="employee1@domain.co
<OPTION VALUE="employee2@domain.co
<OPTION VALUE="employee3@domain.co
</SELECT>
The value of recipient determines who the form is sent to. This is actually an array passed to formmail.pl.
Dan
Currently I'm just using a simple HTML form with code like this (which I presume would be viewable by bots as it is just in the HTML code):
<SELECT NAME="recipient">
<OPTION VALUE="0" selected>-Select-</OPTION>
<OPTION VALUE="employee1@domain.co
<OPTION VALUE="employee2@domain.co
<OPTION VALUE="employee3@domain.co
</SELECT>
The value of recipient determines who the form is sent to. This is actually an array passed to formmail.pl.
Dan
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I have modified the check_required subroutine to include the following lines at the beginning (I did not use '_' as this could theoretically be a valid character in an address):
$Config{'recipient'} =~ tr/+?/@./; # converts all zemployee1+domain?com to zemployee1@domain.com
$Config{'recipient'} =~ s/^.//; # removes first character resulting in employee1@domain.com
$Config{'recipient'} =~ s/,z/,/g; # if more than one email was submitted remove other 'z' prefixes
There might be a cleaner way to do this, but this works! Any suggestions to clean-up COBOLdinosaur? recipient is a comma delimited text string (as submitted from the form field).
Thanks,
Dan
$Config{'recipient'} =~ tr/+?/@./; # converts all zemployee1+domain?com to zemployee1@domain.com
$Config{'recipient'} =~ s/^.//; # removes first character resulting in employee1@domain.com
$Config{'recipient'} =~ s/,z/,/g; # if more than one email was submitted remove other 'z' prefixes
There might be a cleaner way to do this, but this works! Any suggestions to clean-up COBOLdinosaur? recipient is a comma delimited text string (as submitted from the form field).
Thanks,
Dan
That looks efficient, and as you said it works. :^)
Cd&
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