Antispam Module
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I wrote my first module for OddMuse today, the Antispam Module. It is designed to locate email addresses within pages, and replace them with a masked version that will at least keep a few spambots off your back for a while. It isn’t foolproof, but it helps, and it is invisible to human visitors.
Whenever you include an email address:
foo@bar.com
It is replaced with an encoded version:
foo@ba
r.com
This encoded version is displayed normally by your web browser, but MIGHT be able to fool a few spambots…
Additionally, you can have the module automatically create mailto links for each address.
foo@bar.com
Becomes:
<a href="mailto:foo@bar.com">foo@bar.com</a>
(In live use, this would be encoded, of course.)
Additionally, you can create more complicated links:
[Email Me](foo@bar.com)
Becomes:
<a href="mailto:foo@bar.com">Email Me</a>
Currently, the regexp used to match email is:
$EmailRegExp = '[\w\.\-]+@([\w\-]+\.)+[\w]+';
I am sure that there is room to improve this…
$DoMaskEmail
Default: 1
If enabled, any email address found, not just those inside BracketText, will be masked
$CreateMailtoLinks
Default: 1
If enabled, any email address found, not just those inside BracketText, will be converted into a mailto link.
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