Replace email address with X's

[timmah1]

I need to replace everything after the @, but before the . with X's on a page.

 

I can remove the email with this

$result = substr($email, 0, stripos($email, "@") );

 

but now how do I go about replacing the @domain.com with X's?

 

Example:

Suppose the email address is [email protected]

 

I need the email address to show on the page like this

[email protected]

 

Thanks in advance

[spfoonnewb]

Assuming you don't want functionality for leaving say, a .net instead of a .com, this should work:

 

<?php

$email = "[email protected]";
$replace = "@xxx.com";

$result = str_replace(strstr($email, "@"), $replace, $email);

echo $result;

?>

 

If you are using PHP 5.3 you could do something even better such as:

 

<?php

$email = "[email protected]";

echo strstr($email, "@", true)."@xxx.com";

?>

[BRADERY]

$filename = 'emails.txt'; 
$file = file($filename); 
foreach($file as $cwb) { 
list($email,$domain) = explode('@',trim($cwb));  
$emails[] = $email . '@xxx.com'; 
}
file_put_contents($filename,implode("\n",$emails)); 

[BRADERY]

thats assuming you have the emails in a text with one email on each line

 

lol

[timmah1]

Thanks everybody, this should work.

 

I was trying to figure out a way to actually have the script count the characters of the domain and show that many x's.

 

For instance, if it's yahoo.com, then show it xxxxx.com, and then if it's aol.com, xxx.com, hotmail.com, xxxxxxx.com.

 

Everything is pulled from the database.

 

Thanks

 

 

[spfoonnewb]

I'm sure this could be adapted a bit, and possibly not use regex for speed, but accomplishes the goal:

 

<?php

$email = "[email protected]";

preg_match("/(.+?)\@(.+?)\.(.+?)$/", $email, $domain);

$replacement = "{$domain[1]}@".str_pad("", strlen($domain[2]), "x").".{$domain[3]}";

echo $replacement;

?>

 

Another, more efficient way to do this, would be to use and array of domains, and then have a default.