Formatting email address for safe display

[brutas]

Hi all, I want to change the way I display emails to the public for all the
well know reasons. Email addresses in my database are like [email]tedsmith@hotmail.com[/email]
What I want to do is remove the @hotmail.com part so the only thing that wil
display is tedsmith. I'm not sure how to retrieve everything left of the @
sign. Any help is appreciated. Brian

[cf_menace]

If you replace all non-aplphanumeric characters with thier HTML entites, the
e-mail will display correctly, activate a "compose e-mail " window correctly,
but still foil spam bots as they scrape the source code.


<a
href="mailto&#58;support&#64;somedomain&#46;com">s upport&#64;somedomain&#46;com<
/a>

[Mike Nimer]

Use the list functions, and use the @ as the delimiter, instead of a comma.

#listFirst("foo@blah.com", "@")#


---nimer


"brutas" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
news:cvddon$b2$1@forums.macromedia.com...

> Hi all, I want to change the way I display emails to the public for all
> the
> well know reasons. Email addresses in my database are like
> [email]tedsmith@hotmail.com[/email]
> What I want to do is remove the @hotmail.com part so the only thing that
> wil
> display is tedsmith. I'm not sure how to retrieve everything left of the
> @
> sign. Any help is appreciated. Brian
>

[Creasiamedia]

Many of the best websites use a form to submit email to the company. This was a
macromedia suggested method of avoiding spam. I admit that I'm new to CFML and
can't give you the source but it is available if you do a search on this site I
am sure. Good Luck