function encode_email ($email) {

  $result = '';

  $len = strlen ($email);

  for ($i = 0; $i < $len; $i++) {

    $result .= '&#'.ord ($email{$i}).';';

  }

  return $result;

}



function show_maillink ($email, $text, $title) {

  $email = encode_email ('mailto:'.$email);

  if (strpos ($text, '@')) $text = encode_email ($text);

  if ($title) $title = ' title="'.$title.'"';

  echo "<a href=\"$email\"$title>$text</a>";

}