[Plugin: Email Protect] Protecting arbitrary text (suggested improvement and patch)

In my wordpress blog, I wanted to also protect phone numbers from being harvested. So I extended the email_protect plugin with a new function that lets me protect arbitrary text.

Question to the developer (John Kolbert):
Can you include my patch into the official version of your plugin? It’s just one additional function to be added to the emailprotect.php file.

function ep_text_protect($content){  //converts arbitrary text to an image
    // note that this function converts the whole text to a single image.
    // all text is written on one line.
	$options = get_option('se_options_insert');

    if (preg_match('/\W+/', $options['se_font'])){
          $options['se_font'] = 2;
        }
    if (preg_match('/\W+/', $options['se_bgcolor'])) {
          $options['se_bgcolor'] = "000000";
        }
    if (preg_match('/\W+/', $options['se_ftcolor'])) {
          $options['se_ftcolor'] = "ffffff";
        }
    if (preg_match('/\W+/', $options['se_bdcolor'])) {
          $options['se_bdcolor'] = "000000";
        }

    $plugin_path = get_bloginfo('wpurl') . '/wp-content/plugins/' . dirname(plugin_basename(__FILE__)) . '/';

    $encrypt_text = base64_encode($content);
    $content = "<img src=\"{$plugin_path}image.php?id={$encrypt_text}&font={$options['se_font']}&bg={$options['se_bgcolor']}&ft={$options['se_ftcolor']}&bd={$options['se_bdcolor']}\"/>";
    return $content;
}

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/email-protect/