Hiding Email on Newsletter Signup box

[Chuckie]

Hi there people, i see a lot of people having signup to our newsletter on there websites now and i want to do the same, i have groupmail setup and working fine for the newsletter idea, even the form mail page working fine, but it only currently works if i put the email address in plain text which i dont want to do because of spambots and stuff.

I have used a bit of java script to hide break down the email address and then add the bits up into one variable, but what i dont seem to be able to get right is the bit of code to put in the form box.

<script language="JavaScript">
function readText (form) {
Var_a ="newsletter";
Var_b ="modelpower";
Var_c ="co";
Var_d ="uk";
Var_e = Var_a + "@" + Var_b + "." + Var_c + "." + Var_d
}
</script> <!-- start form code -->
<form action="http://www.modelpower.co.uk/cgi-sys/FormMail.cgi" method="post">
<input type="hidden" name="recipient" value="document.write (Var_e);">
<input type="hidden" value="Subscribe Me" name="subject">
<input type="hidden" value="http://www.modelpower.co.uk/" name="redirect">
<input type="text" name="email">
<input type="submit" value="Subscribe Me"></form> <!-- end form code -->

the result i get is from the form mail page
" Email addresses may not contain (,),>,< or other control chars. "

have browsed a lot of the threads on here but they talk about the script part but not about hpw to build it into form mail.

hope someone can solve my little problem.

[Bruce]

Hi,

The following code will look the same to customers, but will protect your email address:
<script type=text/javascript>
var _u = "sales";
var _d = "domain.co.uk";
var _l = _u + "@" + _d;
var _m = "click to email us";
document.write("<a href='mailto:"+_l+"'>"+_m+"</a>");
</script>
Change the 'sales' and 'domain.co.uk' to your own email address.

Kind regards,

[g11ary]

If this stops spam getting your address, can you please tell me where and how to enter it.

[Duncan Rounding]

You can use it anywhere you waant you email address to appear on your sites. Just go to design view find the code and replace it with the above.

[papermilldirect]

James,

We use Groupmail and Groupmetrics in conjuction.

It accepts signups, removals and using the schedular will automatically update your group list... it really is good.

1 credit per signup or remove. 5000 credits are abount £6

It's been a godsend.

Paul

[Chuckie]

Hiya bruce i kinda get how the script part works but how do i get the form part to refer to script part, if you look in my original post i had kinda done it but how do i set the recipient address for where i want the mail to go to, thats the problem i was having, i currently have a php form working and doing the job in test at the moment but a simple html one would be good for me. Hope some one can help because i dont really want to use peoples email clients to start with to send the subscribe message.

thanks

[Bruce]

<script type=text/javascript>
var _u = "newsletter";
var _d = "modelpower.co.uk";
var _l = _u + "@" + _d;
</script>

<!-- start form code -->
<form action="http://www.modelpower.co.uk/cgi-sys/FormMail.cgi" method="post">
<input type="hidden" name="recipient" value="document.write ("+_l+");">
<input type="hidden" value="Subscribe Me" name="subject">
<input type="hidden" value="http://www.modelpower.co.uk/" name="redirect">
<input type="text" name="email">
<input type="submit" value="Subscribe Me">
</form>
<!-- end form code -->

I am not sure if the above would work but that is how you should do it.

Kind regards,

[Chuckie]

Hiya bruce, i have just tried that and the form displays ok, but when i click on the submit button to send the information to formail script it get this message come up "Email addresses may not contain (,),>,< or other control chars." So i guess this means that the email address isnt being written correctly to the by the script i guess.

Any ideas guys ?

Thanks

[Bruce]

Hi James,

Apologies for the delay in getting back to you on this one. Can you mail me a link to the site so that I could test it too.

Kind regards,

[Chuckie]

hiya bruce, no worries about the delay aslong as what i thought was a simple problem can be solved, the link for the script you want is here
http://www.modelpower.co.uk/testing/emailtest.html
that in itself links to formMail which is working because i tested it with out the hiding the email address bit.


I have copied everything out of the test file and pasted it here also
" Start "
<html>
<head>
<title></title>
</head>

<script type=text/javascript>
var _u = "newsletter";
var _d = "modelpower.co.uk";
var _l = _u + "@" + _d;
</script>


<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF">

<!-- start form code -->
<form action="http://www.modelpower.co.uk/cgi-sys/FormMail.cgi" method="post">
<input type="hidden" name="recipient" value="document.write ("_l");">
<input type="hidden" value="Subscribe Me" name="subject">
<input type="hidden" value="http://www.modelpower.co.uk/" name="redirect">
<input type="text" name="email">
<input type="submit" value="Subscribe Me">
</form>
<!-- end form code -->


</body>


</html>

" Finish "
there you go bruce every things there now

[Bruce]

Hi,

The code needs to be just before the closing head tag ...

<title></title>

<script type=text/javascript>
var _u = "newsletter";
var _d = "modelpower.co.uk";
var _l = _u + "@" + _d;
</script>
</head>

Instead of how you have it at the moment.

Kind regards,

[Chuckie]

hiya bruce, do you want bad news or the bad news
sadly that doesnt work
just tried it and i get the same error.
"Email addresses may not contain (,),>,< or other control chars."

heres the code as it stands

<html>
<head>
<title></title>
<script type=text/javascript>
var _u = "newsletter";
var _d = "modelpower.co.uk";
var _l = _u + "@" + _d;
</script>
</head>
<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
<!-- start form code -->
<form action="http://www.modelpower.co.uk/cgi-sys/FormMail.cgi" method="post">
<input type="hidden" name="recipient" value="document.write ("_l");">
<input type="hidden" value="Subscribe Me" name="subject">
<input type="hidden" value="http://www.modelpower.co.uk/" name="redirect">
<input type="text" name="email">
<input type="submit" value="Subscribe Me">
</form>
<!-- end form code -->
</body>
</html>

[Duncan Rounding]

I don't think you need the quotes around _l
Have you tried:
value="document.write (_l);">

[Chuckie]

hiya drounding, i would love to say you win the prize and go to the top of the class, i have tried your variations but to no avail
thanks for your help though

[Duncan Rounding]

I think there may be more than one fault then.
This won't work for starters:
value="document.write ("_l");">
you will definitely need to remove the quotes around the _l
I just tested the script in a test page and the address is formed correctly but the document.write is wrong.

Perhaps therefore it's also related to the form input and the script running inside the form.