Using GD Library to Hide Email Addresses from Bots

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pianoman3635
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Using GD Library to Hide Email Addresses from Bots

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Hello,

I am an amature PHP coder, and recently I've heard about using the GD library to change e-mail addresses to images. The theory behind it is that it prevents spam bots from harvesting e-mail addresses because it cannot see any of the characters.

I have been unable to find any tutorials on how I would be able to design a script to do this. I just need an image to be produced somewhere on my server. Perhaps the script would accompany a web page I could go to to input a text string, click submit, and have it converted to an image. Thanks!
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