On 26 Jun 2007 at 12:46, Paul Hayden wrote: > David Fenton wrote: > > >On my own web pages, I use a PHP email form so that the user never > knows the address the mail is being sent to. > > This is probably a good idea, but I wonder if these forms are > temperamental (I'm not a programmer, so I don't know). I tried the > "Contact David Fenton" link on your pages using Firefox v. 2.0.0.4, > Safari v. 1.3.2, and my old Internet Explorer for Mac v. 5.2.3, but I > just got a blank page in each case.
Thank you so much for telling me this! Nobody who encountered it had any way to inform me, and I didn't know it was erroring out. The problem was that my ISP installed a new build of PHP on May 15th with different default settings that caused my code to stop working, and I didn't know about it. > There are a variety of ways to hide email addresses from spiders, but > I don't know which is the best. There are drawbacks to each. You can > easily find info on this by Googling something like "hide email > address". The problem with my contact forms was not the programming of the forms, but an upgrade by my ISP. This is one of the really annoying things about shared hosting -- they often upgrade major software infrastructure without informing you. I've had this happen to me with nearly every major upgrade that any ISP has ever done on any of my sites. It's very annoying. But, thank you for trying it out and responding! -- David W. Fenton http://dfenton.com David Fenton Associates http://dfenton.com/DFA/ _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
