Flash Contact form using PHP???

GAGE

Hi!
I'm a complete newbie to PHP.
This is my first attempt at even trying to understand the language, and I am STUCK!!
I created a form in FLASH and did all the actionscript, then I created my PHP page, but I think I have some "issues" becuase though it does send the emails, there is no content AND when I hit the send button it doesn't jump to the message sent frame I created, can anyone help?

Here is my Actionscript:

stop();

var senderLoad:LoadVars = new LoadVars();
var receiveLoad:LoadVars = new LoadVars();

send.onRelease = function() {
senderload.how = how.getSelectedItem().thename;
senderload.how = how.getSelectedItem().email;
senderload.how = how.getSelectedItem().phone;
senderload.how = how.getSelectedItem().email;
senderload.how = how.getSelectedItem().how;
senderload.how = how.getSelectedItem().other;
senderload.how = how.getSelectedItem().referral;
senderload.april = radioGroup.selection.data
senderload.may = radioGroup.selection.data
senderload.how = how.getSelectedItem().seats;
senderLoad.comments = comments.text;
senderLoad.sendAndLoad("http://www.basiqs.com/sacred/contact.php",receiveLoad);
}

receiveLoad.onLoad = function() {
if(this.sentOk) {
root.gotoAndStop("success");
}
else {
root.gotoAndStop("failed");
}
}

Here is my PHP:

<?php
$sendTo = "gage@basiqs.com";
$subject = "Sacred Actor Contact Form";
$headers = "From: " . $POST["thename"];
$headers .= "<" . $POST["email"] . ">\r\n";
$headers .= "Reply-To: " . $POST["Email"] . "\r\n";
$headers .= "Return-Path: " . $POST["Email"];
$headers .= "<" . $POST["phone"] . ">\r\n";
$headers .= "<" . $POST["how"] . ">\r\n";
$headers .= "<" . $POST["other"] . ">\r\n";
$headers .= "<" . $POST["referral"] . ">\r\n";
$headers .= "<" . $_POST["referral"] . ">\r\n";
$message .= "\nseminar April:". $april;
$message .= "\nseminar may:". $may;
$message .= "\nseats:". $one;
$message .= "\nseats:". $two;
$message .= "\nseats:". $three;
$message .= "\n\ncomments:". $comments;
$headers = "from: $email";
$headers .= "\nReply-To: $email";
$sentOk = mail($to,$subject,$message,$headers);
echo "sentOk=" . $sentOk;
?>

Please for the love of God can someone help me???
😕

GAGE

I'm in shock.
Is my code THAT bad????

jeremyphphaven

LOL,

No, its not necessarily that it's THAT bad (your new... it's expected)... and ok, it's actually horrible

There are a lot of problems with both the flash and PHP:

I'll deal the with PHP part now and I have to go back to a project I did a long time ago to look for the appropriate flash code. I'll update the post afterwards:

THE PHP (I just rewrote it for you):

$to  = 'gage@basiqs.com';
$subject = 'Sacred Actor Contact Form';

$message = '
<html>
<head>
  <title>Sacred Actor Contact Form</title>
</head>
<body>
	<p>
	phone:' .$_REQUEST['phone']. ' <br />
	email:' .$_REQUEST['email']. ' <br />
	name: ' .$_REQUEST['name']. ' <br />
	how: ' .$_REQUEST['how']. ' <br />
	other: ' .$_REQUEST['other']. ' <br />
	ref: ' .$_REQUEST['referral']. ' <br />
	seminar April: ' .$_REQUEST['april']. ' <br />
	seminar May: ' .$_REQUEST['may']. ' <br />
	seats: ' .$_REQUEST['numberofseats']. ' <br />
	comments: ' .$_REQUEST['comments']. ' <br />
	</p>
</body>
</html>
';

// HTML FORMATTED EMAIL
$headers  = 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1' . "\r\n";

// headers
$headers .= 'From: ' .$_REQUEST['name']. ' <' .$_REQUEST['email']. '>' . "\r\n";
// $headers .= 'Cc: birthdayarchive@example.com' . "\r\n";
// $headers .= 'Bcc: birthdaycheck@example.com' . "\r\n";

// Mail it
if(mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers))
	// RETURN TO FLASH (WILL UPDATE)
else 
	// Messed UP TO FLASH (WILL UPDATE)

GAGE

Thank u SO much!
Can't begin to tell you how much it means to have a working example to learn from!
THANK YOU!!!!

GAGE

Did u have any luck with the actionscript?
I tried doing it myself again with the revised php code, but it's still broken,, 🙁

designer02

You'll have to excuse me for errors it has been a while since I used a contact form in Flash.

just a thought...

if you're using actionscript 2.0 try using the following:

stop();

var senderLoad:LoadVars = new LoadVars();
var receiveLoad:LoadVars = new LoadVars();

send.onRelease = function() {
senderload.name = theinstancename.text;
senderload.email = theinstancename.text;
senderload.phone= theinstancename.text;
senderload.how = theinstancename.selectedItem;
senderload.other= theinstancename.text;
senderload.referral= theinstancename.text;
senderload.date = radioGroup.data;
senderload.seats = theinstancename.text;
senderLoad.comments = theinstancename.text;
senderLoad.sendAndLoad("http://www.basiqs.com/sacred/contact.php",receiveLoad);
}

receiveLoad.onLoad = function() {
if(this.sentOk) {
_root.gotoAndStop("success"); // replace _root with relative path
}
else {
_root.gotoAndStop("failed"); // replace _root with relative path
}
}

This is assuming that your using text inputs for the fields - name, email, phone, other, referral, seats, and comments. If you're using a combo box component just refer to the value of the box as - theinstancename.selectedItem. In the preceding code be sure to change "theinstancename" to the specific instance name of the component for each individual item.

you were simply sending one var over to php to process (senderLoad.how), the value of which was always being overwritten by the following statement in your send function. Now All of the vars will be accessible from PHP as $POST['name'], $POST['email'] etc...

I might also recommend using relative paths in your actionscript instead of absolute as absolute paths... Just good coding practice.

GAGE

I don't know what's wrong... But it still isn't working..
I hit submit and it jumps to message failed alert I created.

Here's the code again, maybe I did something wrong????

Can't tell you how much i appreciate your help this is driving me bonkers!

The Actionscript:
(here is a link to my FLA file: http://www.basiqs.com/sacred/contact.fla)

stop();

var senderLoad:LoadVars = new LoadVars();
var receiveLoad:LoadVars = new LoadVars();

send.onRelease = function() {
senderload.name = thename.text;
senderload.email = theemail.text;
senderload.phone = phone.text;
senderload.how = how.selectedItem;
senderload.other = other.text;
senderload.referral = referral.text;
senderload.date = radioGroup.data;
senderload.seats = seats.selectedItem;
senderLoad.comments = comments.text;
senderLoad.sendAndLoad("http://www.basiqs.com/sacred/contact.php",receiveLoad);
}

receiveLoad.onLoad = function() {
if(this.sentOk) {
gotoAndStop("success");
}
else {
gotoAndStop("failed");
}
}

Here is the PHP:
(http://www.basiqs.com/sacred/contact.php)

$to = 'gage@basiqs.com';
$subject = 'Sacred Actor Contact Form';

$message = '
<html>
<head>
<title>Sacred Actor Contact Form</title>
</head>
<body>

phone:' .$REQUEST['phone']. ' 
email:' .$REQUEST['theemail']. ' 
name: ' .$REQUEST['thename']. ' 
how: ' .$REQUEST['how']. ' 
other: ' .$REQUEST['other']. ' 
ref: ' .$REQUEST['referral']. ' 
seminar April: ' .$REQUEST['april']. ' 
seminar May: ' .$REQUEST['may']. ' 
seats: ' .$REQUEST['numberofseats']. ' 
comments: ' .$REQUEST['comments']. ' 

</body>
</html>
';

// HTML FORMATTED EMAIL
$headers = 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1' . "\r\n";

// headers
$headers .= 'From: ' .$REQUEST['name']. ' <' .$REQUEST['email']. '>' . "\r\n";
// $headers .= 'Cc: birthdayarchive@example.com' . "\r\n";
// $headers .= 'Bcc: birthdaycheck@example.com' . "\r\n";

// Mail it
if(mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers))
// RETURN TO FLASH (WILL UPDATE)
else
// Messed UP TO FLASH (WILL UPDATE)

bpat1434

You're not returning anything in your PHP code.... so thus Flash gets nothing back.

GAGE

I'm sorry this is my first attempt at programming.. can u be a bit more specific?

designer02

you need to echo or return a value for flash to enact with php successfully. See below:

$to  = 'gage@basiqs.com';
$subject = 'Sacred Actor Contact Form';

// headers
$headers = 'Reply-To: ' .$_POST['name']. ' <' .$_REQUEST['email']. '>' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'From: ' .$_POST['name']. ' <' .$_REQUEST['email']. '>' . "\r\n";
// $headers .= 'Cc: birthdayarchive@example.com' . "\r\n";
// $headers .= 'Bcc: birthdaycheck@example.com' . "\r\n";

$message = "name: " .$_POST['thename']. "\n";
$message .= "phone: " .$_POST['phone']. "\n";
$message .= "email: " .$_POST['theemail']. "\n\n";
$message .= "how: " .$_POST['how']. "\n";
$message .= "other: " .$_POST['other']. "\n";
$message .= "ref: " .$_POST['referral']. "\n";
$message .= "seminar April: " .$_POST['april']. "\n";
$message .= "seminar May: " .$_POST['may']. "\n";
$message .= "seats: " .$_POST['numberofseats']. "\n";
$message .= "comments: " .$_POST['comments']. "\n";


// Mail it
$sentOK = mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers))

if($sentOK)
{
	echo $sentOK;
}

I also took out your html settings as it seemed overkill (according to the html that was being sent) to send an html formatted message when a plain text version will do the same thing.

jeremyphphaven

well do you need to return anything to flash?

designer02

Thought that the previous would have worked. Use the following.

replace the if statement at the bottom of the php code with the line below:

echo "sentOk=" . $sentOk;

so instead of:

if($sentOK)
{
echo $sentOK;
}

make it:

echo "sentOk=" . $sentOk;

designer02

Be sure to have the variable sentOk be the exact same case in php as it is in flash.

in flash it is sentOk not sentOK...

just noticed the discrepancy

GAGE

First of all, Thank you sooo much for helping me!
I did everything you said, But for some reason it still isn't working. 🙁

Here is the php:

$to = 'gage@basiqs.com';
$subject = 'Sacred Actor Contact Form';

// headers
$headers = 'Reply-To: ' .$POST['name']. ' <' .$REQUEST['email']. '>' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'From: ' .$POST['name']. ' <' .$REQUEST['email']. '>' . "\r\n";
// $headers .= 'Cc: ' . "\r\n";
// $headers .= 'Bcc: ' . "\r\n";

$message = "name: " .$POST['thename']. "\n";
$message .= "phone: " .$POST['phone']. "\n";
$message .= "email: " .$POST['theemail']. "\n\n";
$message .= "how: " .$POST['how']. "\n";
$message .= "other: " .$POST['other']. "\n";
$message .= "ref: " .$POST['referral']. "\n";
$message .= "seminar April: " .$POST['april']. "\n";
$message .= "seminar May: " .$POST['may']. "\n";
$message .= "seats: " .$POST['numberofseats']. "\n";
$message .= "comments: " .$POST['comments']. "\n";

// Mail it
$sentOk = mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers))

echo "sentOk=" . $sentOk;

Actionscript:

stop();

var senderLoad:LoadVars = new LoadVars();
var receiveLoad:LoadVars = new LoadVars();

receiveLoad.onLoad = function() {
if(this.sentOk) {
gotoAndStop("success");
}
else {
gotoAndStop("failed");
}
}

Anything else jump out that I may have messed up on?

bpat1434

I'm not a huge flash guru, but is it possible that you need to convert the boolean "true" to a string or integer first? Or test it as a string or integer in the actionscript?

GAGE

O don't understand what you mean... 🙁

bpat1434

Try and echo a boolean true.... you get nothing. A boolean (true or false) will not echo anything, so you could be sending "sentOk=" back to the browser when you really want "sentOk=true" or "sentOk=false". To do that, you'd have to cast it as a string: echo "sentOk=" . (string) $sentOk;

You could also achieve the same effect using integers (1 or 0) as to whether it was sent okay or not.

if($sentOk)
    $sentOk=1;
else
    $sentOk=0;

echo 'sentOk=' . $sentOk;

GAGE

here is my revised PHP

But the form still doesn't work 🙁

$to = 'gage@basiqs.com';
$subject = 'Sacred Actor Contact Form';

// Mail it
if($sentOk)
$sentOk=1;
else
$sentOk=0;

echo 'sentOk=' . $sentOk;

jeremyphphaven

I think if you're not needed to pass back ANYTHING to flash, as I'm assuming you do not, just do a simple loadvars and pass everything in the send string.