Mailto: Email Obfuscation (ASCII)

function safeEmail($email)
	{
 
		$obfuscatedEmail = '';
	    $email           = eregi_replace('#','', $email);
	    $length          = strlen($email);
 
	    for ($i = 0; $i < $length; $i++)
	    {
	        $obfuscatedEmail .= "&#" . ord($email[$i]);
	    }
 
	    $return = '<a href="mailto:' . $obfuscatedEmail . '">'.$obfuscatedEmail.'</a>';
 
	    return $return;
	}