Title: [Plugin: Exec-PHP] antispambot() parsing problem?
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# [Plugin: Exec-PHP] antispambot() parsing problem?

 *  Resolved [benwhale](https://wordpress.org/support/users/benwhale/)
 * (@benwhale)
 * [16 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-exec-php-antispambot-parsing-problem/)
 * Hi, forgive me if this is a silly question. I’m still trying to get up to speed.
 * I want to use `antispambot()` to hide an email address on a [page](http://www.benwhale.com/contact/)
   of my website. You can see the result under **Email**. The php code used to generate
   the source `<a href="mailto:ben@benwhale.com">ben@benwhale.com</a>` tag is `<
   a href="mailto:<?php echo antispambot(the_author_meta('user_email')); ?>"><?php
   echo antispambot(the_author_meta('user_email')); ?></a>`.
 * My understanding is that `antispambot()` should return a string with a number
   of randomly selected characters converted into HTML entities. Since the HTML 
   source for this page doesn’t contain any such HTML entities, for this particular
   tag, I wonder if Exec-PHP is parsing the HTML entities into characters?
 * For reference I have included two email addresses in purely HTML entities. To
   demonstrate, to myself, that the source should contain HTML entities. I have 
   also turned off visual editor and wordpresses automated correcting of HTML tags.
   I am using the admin role and so have the necessary capabilities.
 * Is this a problem with Exec-PHP? Have I done something stupid?

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 *  Thread Starter [benwhale](https://wordpress.org/support/users/benwhale/)
 * (@benwhale)
 * [16 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-exec-php-antispambot-parsing-problem/#post-1415254)
 * Since I have had no replies to this post and as I was only using Exec PHP for
   antispambot() I’ve gone with emOba for now.

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 * Last activity: [16 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-exec-php-antispambot-parsing-problem/#post-1415254)
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