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 test@test.com

 

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

test@xxx.com

 

Thanks in advance

[spfoonnewb]

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

 

<?php

$email = "test@domain.com";
$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 = "test@domain.com";

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 = "test@test.com";

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.