CFLib.org – Common Function Library Project

Description:
This function is intended to obfuscate strings on a page. It converts characters to their ASCII decimal equivalent, and outputs the concatenated result in place of the original. This is particularly useful for protecting email addresses from harvesters (or at least until they figure it out). Best of all, you can still use href="mailto:#HTMLTrans(example)#".

Return Values:
Returns a string.

Example:

<cfset example="name@example.com">

<cfoutput>#HTMLTrans(example)#</cfoutput>

Parameters:

Full UDF Source:

/**
 * Converts the characters in a string to encoded special characters.
 * Rewritten by Raymond Camden
 * 
 * @param string      String to format. (Required)
 * @return Returns a string. 
 * @author Oblio (oleitch@locustcreek.com) 
 * @version 2, August 28, 2003 
 */
function HTMLTrans(string) {
    var slen = len(string);
    var encoded = "";

    while (slen) {
        encoded = encoded & "&##" & Asc(left(string,1)) & ";";
        string = mid(string,2,slen-1);
        slen=len(string);
    }
    return encoded;
}