http://www.bytemycode.com Revisions for this snippet. Tue, 07 Oct 2008 20:36:54 +0000 1998-2008 en-us http://www.bytemycode.com http://www.bytemycode.com/img/rss_title.gif http://www.bytemycode.com/snippets/snippet/335/1/ http://www.bytemycode.com/snippets/snippet/335/comments/ Wed, 30 Aug 2006 05:06:20 +0000 dohpaz entities, HTML, PHP http://www.bytemycode.com/snippets/snippet/335/ This function is useful in helping to deter spam bots by obfuscating things such as e-mail addresses and URLs that are displayed on a web page. While it's not 100% fool proof, it does offer some protection.

Example:
$email = html_entitize('foo@baz.org');
/*
Outputs foo@baz.com
*/

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