Obfuscating email addresses displayed by Views?

Question

I'm working on a View that displays a user's email field as a mailto. Given this is a recipe for spam, I'm wanting some way of obfuscating it.

I thought I'd go with Invisimail, but it (and seemingly ever other similar project) relies on a text filter. Given that the User email field doesn't use input formats, this makes it useless for my particular application.

I suppose I could create a separate email field, but I'd really like to not have to.

In short -- How do I obfuscate a user email field displayed via Views?

Thanks!

Answer 1

Spamspan module will help you. It can obfuscate email addresses from email fields along with emails provided inline in text.

For email field - chooses Spamspan formatter in display settings.

Answer 2

To obfuscate the default users email field in a view you need to combine answers from Eugene and Eva.

• install spamspan module
• use the users email field in a view
• copy the file views-view-field.tpl.php from [path_to_modules]/views/theme folder to your theme folder
• change file name from views-view-field.tpl.php to views-view-field--mail.tpl.php
• replace the default output in that file for the code snippet from Eva
• clear theme cache

Answer 3

We use custom tpl.php file for the user account email field. In this field we have the following code:

<?php
if (function_exists('spamspan')) {
  print spamspan($output);
} else {
  print $output;
}
?>