Is it possible to find plain text emails and wrap them into a tag

  • Resolved certainlyakey

    (@certainlyakey)


    10 years, 1 month ago

    Hello! Thank you for the plugin, I use it extensively.

    On one of my sites there’s a custom field designed for all sorts of contact information, optionally including emails. These emails as the client is not very tech savvy will be most certainly put a plain text, without <a href="mailto:"> tag. Therefore the question, is it possible to automatically find such emails in given text (for example, with eae_encode_emails function), wrap them in a tags and then apply obfuscation. This is how it could work, on a simple text string:

    $contactstext = get_post_meta($post->ID, 'contactstext', true);
//$contactstext = 'string... email@example.com ...string'
if ($contactstext) {echo '<div class="contactstext">'.eae_encode_emails($contactstext).'</div>';}
//$contactstext = 'string... <a href="mailto:OBFUSCATEDEMAIL">OBFUSCATEDEMAIL</a> ...string'

    Thanks!

    https://wordpress.org/plugins/email-address-encoder/

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  • Plugin Author Till Krüss

    (@tillkruess)

    10 years, 1 month ago

    Yes, you can auto-link and encode all found email addresses like that:

    add_filter( 'eae_method', function() {
	return 'encode_n_link_emails';
});

function encode_n_link_emails( $email ) {

	return sprintf(
		'<a href="%s">%s</a>',
		eae_encode_str( 'mailto:' . $email ),
		eae_encode_str( $email )
	);

}
    Thread Starter certainlyakey

    (@certainlyakey)

    10 years, 1 month ago

    Thank you very much! This code works, however, only for plain emails, without a tags already applied. If an email is wrapped in a, we get this in browser:
    mailto:email@gmail.com">email@gmail.com

    Plugin Author Till Krüss

    (@tillkruess)

    10 years, 1 month ago

    I’d recommend to either run strip_tags() on your custom field data before hand, that would remove all HTML tags from it, or if you want to preserve possible HTML tags, then get a plugin (or PHP function) that auto-links email addresses and after that’s done run only eae_encode_emails() on your custom field data.

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