Easiest way to protect e-mail address in content from spam
dresde - April 7, 2009 - 11:51
Hi there,
I'm setting up a "staff" page in a Drupal site that has the e-mail of the people. The old site (built in XHTML and CSS) uses a simple JavaScript to protect this e-mails from spam, just writting
<script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript">
<!--
var string1 = "name";
var string2 = "@";
var string3 = "mydomain.com";
var string4 = string1 + string2 + string3;
var string5 = " class=normal";
document.write("<a href=" + "mail" + "to:" + string1 +
string2 + string3 + string5 + ">" + string4 + "</a>");
//-->
</script>And this simple line in
<script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript">So I'm looking for the easiest way to write those e-mail address in Drupal preventing the spam. I have seen that it's possible to use this same system but you need to create a .js file and upload it somewhere, but I don't know where to upload it and what does that file need to content.
Can anyone explain that?
Is there an easiest way to do this in Drupal?
Thank you.

Have a look at
Have a look at http://drupal.org/node/121997 (or go Documentation -> developing for Drupal -> JavaScript in Drupal).
You can also specify additional JavaScript file in the Theme's .info file (see http://drupal.org/node/171205#scripts), but the disadvantage is that your script will be loaded on every page.
Thanks for the reply, but I
Thanks for the reply, but I need something more "for dummies", that was too heavy for me :(
i recently discovered the
i recently discovered the spamspan module. can't vouch for it's effectiveness yet (ever?), but check it out and see what you think.