title: How to protect an email address in a php file?
body: <p>I have a continuously upgraded and minimalistically developed LAMP environment with an all-core CMS website.</p>
  <p>The main reason that my contact form in my website is backend (PHP) instead frontend (vanilla JavaScript) is to protect my email address from spambots that might scan for email address in HTML output sources and then abuse the email address.</p>
  <p>So, say I have created a small simple backend contact form program from 4 files (<code>structure.html</code>, <code>backend.php</code>, <code>frontend.js</code>, <code>style.css</code>) and hardcoded my current email address inside <code>backend.php</code>; this is still a file which annoying bots can find somehow (bruteforce-searching?) and accesses via some user agent (say a web browser) and read and &quot;mine&quot; my email address from there and still abuse it, right? If so than:</p>
  <p><strong>How to protect an email address in a php file?</strong></p>