encodeEmail ( email ; rName )

Encode HTML mailto link as hexadecimal string

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Hunter Chisholm - Show more from this author
Protean Solutions, LLC
http://proteansolutions.com

Sample input:

encodeEmail ( "jane@yourdomain.com" , "Jane Elizabeth" )

Sample output:

Jane Elizabeth

Function definition: (Copy & paste into FileMaker's Edit Custom Function window)

"<a href=\"" & 

Substitute (
Substitute ( Lower ("mailto:" & email) & "\">";

[ "a" ; "&#~61;" ] ;
[ "b" ; "&#~62;" ] ;
[ "c" ; "&#~63;" ] ;
[ "d" ; "&#~64;" ] ;
[ "e" ; "&#~65;" ] ;
[ "f" ; "&#~66;" ] ;
[ "g" ; "&#~67;" ] ;
[ "h" ; "&#~68;" ] ;
[ "i" ; "&#~69;" ] ;
[ "j" ; "&#~6A;" ] ;
[ "k" ; "&#~6B;" ] ;
[ "l" ; "&#~6C;" ] ;
[ "m" ; "&#~6D;" ] ;
[ "n" ; "&#~6E;" ] ;
[ "o" ; "&#~6F;" ] ;
[ "p" ; "&#~70;" ] ;
[ "q" ; "&#~71;" ] ;
[ "r" ; "&#~72;" ] ;
[ "s" ; "&#~73;" ] ;
[ "t" ; "&#~74;" ] ;
[ "u" ; "&#~75;" ] ;
[ "v" ; "&#~76;" ] ;
[ "w" ; "&#~77;" ] ;
[ "x" ; "&#~78;" ] ;
[ "y" ; "&#~79;" ] ;
[ "z" ; "&#~7A;" ] ;
[ "_" ; "&#~5F;" ] ;
[ "@" ; "&#~40;" ] ;
[ ":" ; "&#~3A;" ] ;
[ "=" ; "&#~3D;" ];
[ "." ; "." ]

); "~"; "x") & rName & "</a>"

When generating web pages from a database this function will convert the email address portion of the mailto link into a hexadecimal string. While not 100% affective in stopping the harvesting of email addresses, it reduces it considerably.

Numbers in email addresses are not encoded.

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		Anna Villa, USA Mar 27, 2009
Informative! Anna annakhristinavilla@yahoo.com

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encodeEmail ( email ; rName )

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