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Spambots and e-mail harvesters are an important tool for the spamming community as collecting e-mail addresses from web sites provides a ‘market’ for all that junk you get in your spam folder and often in your inbox. Like any good content management system or blog, Joomla protects any e-mail addresses in your site content by using javascript to encode the emails in source code of your site. This prevent the harvesters from recognizing them as an e-mail address but allows the end-user to click the e-mail address on your site and trigger your default mail client to start composing a new message with the 'To:' field pre-populated. The email cloaking feature is delivered via the aptly-named ‘Email cloaking’ plugin which makes protecting your email address available to 3rd party extensions such as JCal Pro that support content plugins. However, I have had to disable this plugin in the past on some sites as end-users would sometimes report the following error when they clicked on some e-mail links This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Well, I never really got to the root of the problem and it always bothered me that I had a site without e-mail protection. Today the problem reared its head again and I decided to get to the bottom of it. First stop: forum.jooma.org
Searching for the error message above
returned many hits, suggesting that this is a common problem with no
immediate solution. After discussing the issue with some other Joomla
developers, we quickly discovered that the behaviour only occurred when
images were being used as links to the e-mail address. For example: <a href="mailto: This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it "><img src="mail.png" alt="Email” /></a> This was the critical clue and refining our search on the forum confirmed that this type of link was not supported by the email cloaking plugin. Thankfully, user wajdan723 had already posted a hack of the plugin to support image links properly. Not wanting to hack the Joomla core, Ken Crowder - a colleague and author of Using Joomla: Building Powerful and Efficient Web Sites - quickly took the opportunity to port the hack into a stand-alone plugin called Email Protection Plus that can be installed on your Joomla site as a replacement for the default plugin. This plugin is now available as a free download here at dev.anything-digital.com .
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I can't seem to get this to work. I love the way the description above is written, so someone that's not a programmer can understand, but I'm not sure if I did the install/uninstall correctly. I've tried install uninstalling it and installing again, still can't use images for email links...
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October 29, 2009
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HI,
The only problem now is that the email cloaking when using an image doesn't seem to work when the image/email link is placed in something other than an article. I have my image/email link in a custom module and there is no cloaking. Is there a way around this? I hope so! Please let me know.
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November 22, 2009
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Extensions must be written to support system plugins so you'll need to contact the module developer to add plugin support.
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November 22, 2009
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I don't understand what is going on here. First I can't upload the plugin via the back end Joomla installer because it won't allow me to select the package folder. Then I just decide to just FTP the package to the plugins folder directly. Then, as instructed by this site, I uninstall the default Joomla email cloaking plugin, and it disappears permanently. Not just uninstalls. Disappears from the back end directory entirely! Now I have nothing. No Default. No plugin from the new upload. Sheesh! Can anybody help? Is anybody there?
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December 14, 2009
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