Hi,

How should I encode email addresses in content text in my templates so that spam bots won't recognize them? I've tried a couple of modules, but they either throw errors or do nothing and all and none of them have any kind of documentation about how to use them.

So you have email addresses embedded within a text field? Email::obfuscate() handles encoding email addresses to 'hide' the addresses but this only works on a single email (it won't replace all email addresses within content).

I'd do something like.. (not tested, but should give you a start)

function getEmailEscapedContent() {
$content = $this->Content;
$callback = function($matches) {
Email::obfuscate($matches[0]);
};

return DBField::create_field('HTMLText', preg_replace_callback("/[A-Z0-9._%-]+@[A-Z0-9.-]+\.[A-Z]{2,4}/i", $callback,$content));
}

Then instead of using $Content to output, use $EmailEscapedContent

Thanks, that works (after I added 'return' to the callback, in case some else ever tries this :).

edit:

I ended up putting this code in my PageController, so I can escape any field, not just content

    function EscapeEmail($content) {
        $callback = function($matches) {
                    return Email::obfuscate( $matches[0], 'hex' );
                };

        return DBField::create_field( 'HTMLText', preg_replace_callback( "/[A-Z0-9._%-]+@[A-Z0-9.-]+\.[A-Z]{2,4}/i", $callback, $content ) );
    }

And in template:

$EscapeEmail($Content)