Help with php i'm a noob

[dalecosp]

$_REQUEST['recipient'] for PHP, and looks like a similar variable in the ASP script.

[dalecosp]

Oh, and welcome to PHPBuilder!

Also, don't call yourself a "noob" ... people might not answer your posts, hee hee. 😃

Example for PHP:

//old
mail($_REQUEST['recipient'], $subject, "

//new
mail("[e-mail]", $subject, "

[NogDog]

Welcome to the forums, djadisan. You can help us to help you by putting your code snippets inside of [noparse]

...

[/noparse] bbcode tags. It's much easier to read than a bunch of red, unformatted text. 😉

[djadisan]

hey guys thank you for the warm welcome , but i still have the problem i've put my email in the RECIPIENT marker but nothing happends , as i said i'm a total idiot with php. if someone can rewrite the code or something like that , i'll be more than happy. As i said i'm ZERO in php . Hope u can help me. 😕😕

[dalecosp]

Ok, for starters, change this first line:

<?

to this:

<?php

.

[djadisan]

done ... can u "teach me" i'm a fast learner. php ? basics ? for this form ? i'll take notes u know something like .

"·&& -- is a function
31u231 - is a blabla

P.S. I'M DESPERATE:xbones::xbones:

[sneakyimp]

you can define a [man]function[/man] using the word 'function':

function my_function($input) {
    return 'your input was ' . $input;
}

Unlike Actionscript 3, PHP lets you send any variable anywhere -- it doesn't do rigid type checking.

Variables in PHP start with a dollar sign. The $REQUEST variable these guys refer to is what is called a superglobal. There are a few of them (search php.net for superglobals). For example, $GET contains variables supplied in the query string to your page. For instance, if I visit http://site.com/script.php?my_var=some+value then in my file script.php I can do this:

echo 'my var has a value of ' . $_GET['my_var'];

$_POST is similar but you have to build a form with method=post and action=script.php.

$REQUEST is a merge of $GET, $POST, and $COOKIE and can be really convenient to use because it checks several of the various ways you could supply a value to a php script.

[djadisan]

thanks for the help .. i'll try and learn , i want to and i need to , i need the damn form ... can u tell me what changes do i need to do or how can i recode it ?

[sneakyimp]

If you read the code in the PHP script, you'll see that it refers to numerous $REQUEST variables:
$REQUEST['Your_Name:']
$REQUEST['Your_Email:']
$REQUEST['recipient']

So minimally your form should probably have those form inputs on it. Something like this:

<form method="post" action="contact.php">
  <input type="text" name="Your_Name"> Name<br>
  <input type="text" name="Your_Email"> Email<br>
  <input type="text" name="recipient"> Recipient<br>
  <input type="submit" name="submit" value="submit">
</form

You could put pretty much any other fields you like in your form and this part will stitch them all up into the email.

while ($field = current($_REQUEST)) {
  if ((key($_REQUEST)!="Your_Name:") && (key($_REQUEST)!="Your_Email:") && (key($_REQUEST)!="i")) {
    $message.="<strong>".key($_REQUEST)."</strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;".$field."<br>";
  }
  next($_REQUEST);
}

This code is at risk for become a spam relay because
a) you send the email to whoever is specified in 'recipient'. I could write a script to post your script a billion times and send all kind of spam
b) you fail to validate any of the incoming email addresses to there is enormous potential for abuse. consider using [man]filter_var[/man].

Lastly, you mentioned Flash. This HTML form isn't going to do you much good if you have built a form in flash.

[djadisan]

this is the webpage .... http://marlacoco.webuda.com/ ... i'm searching desperatly for a php o actinonscript 3 script to make the contact work ...

[sneakyimp]

I'll bet you can find one easily if you google it. I've seen dozens of them.

[djadisan]

did that but no results 🙁 tried in other language as well nothing yet...

[sneakyimp]

This is the first result if you google "as3 php mailer"
http://www.warmforestflash.com/blog/2009/06/flash-as3-contact-form-using-php/

[djadisan]

i'm from spain so i don't have the same results on google. .. 🙁 that helped me alot thanks but i have a problem it's returning to email :

your_name adisan&777&Your Name:
your_email 654444689&777&Your Email:
message asasdasda&777&Message:
recipient [e-mail]
siteowner 1

i understand that &777& it's like a error....but not an error

[sneakyimp]

I have no idea what that output is from. It would be helpful to see some code. Please be sure to use the code formatting tags.

[djadisan]

the code is from actionscript and php together

MY ACTIONSCRIPT

rec="my email here";
serv="php";

var fields_descriptions= Array ("",
Array("t1", "your_name"),
Array("t2", "your_email"),
Array("t3", "telephone", "Telephone:"),
Array("t4", "message"),
Array("t5", "field_2", "E-mail:"),
Array("t6", "field_3", "Address:"),
Array("t7", "field_4", "fax:")
);

for (i=1; i<=fields_descriptions.length; i++) {
this["k"+i].text=fields_descriptions[2];
}



THE PHP Is THat from the 1st PAGE

[sneakyimp]

All your code does is take the values you define in the fields_descriptions array and put the 3rd element into a text field (which I assume is in your flash movie).

Your actionscript makes no effort at all to speak with your PHP script.

[djadisan]

if i delete contact.php it doesen't work ...so it must be chained ? guess ?

[sneakyimp]

Did you read my comment? The actionscript you posted doesn't make any effort to interact with your php file.

[djadisan]

ok so if all things are going ok ... why do the response from email has a &777& .... what is that &777& it's like a bug or a trap door ..something like that ...