[thelist] Using JavaScript for non-clickable email addresses

Chris Heilmann lists at onlinetools.org
Wed Jan 26 09:46:30 CST 2005


>> Why bother with a mailto link then? A contact link with an ID would do
>> the same then.
>
> Maybe I'm being dumb, but I don't understand what this means - how does
> this technique work?

I just pondered a bit about that and wondered what you thing of that idea:

Link to a contact.php page with an id

<a href="contact.php?id=222">

The PHP page then checks the referrer and IP and gets the email from a
database or other mean of storage and sends back a mailto: header:

<?PHP
/*
  insert referrer testing and DB voodoo here
*/
header('Location:mailto:'.$email);
?>

Wouldn't that be a quite safe solution?




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