America. 50 Extremely Useful PHP Tools. Advertisement By Jacob Gube PHP is one of the most widely used open-source server-side scripting languages that exist today.
With over 20 million indexed domains using PHP, including major websites like Facebook, Digg and WordPress, there are good reasons why many Web developers prefer it to other server-side scripting languages, such as Python and Ruby. Code Examples -> Human readable PHP password generator. Graceful E-Mail Obfuscation. In “Win the SPAM Arms Race” (A List Apart, May 2002), Dan Benjamin talked about the importance of hiding e-mail addresses on our websites from vicious, e-mail address harvesting bots—or spam bots, as they are more often called.
Dan pioneered a JavaScript-based solution for bypassing the indexing mechanisms that spam bots use. Here’s a quote from the article: Posting a naked e-mail link anywhere on the web (or in a newsgroup, in a chatroom, on a weblog comments page…) is generally the kiss of death for your once-healthy address. It’s hard to believe, but it’s been more than five years since Dan wrote these words.