A good FORM tutorial?

[smayer72]

Forms for flash are not easy to do as I have found out. A tutorial for a full working form would be great, prefferably using nothing but flash(no external scripting unless unavoidable)

Scott

[Jesse]

"Form" is a pretty general topic... I can't think of many forms which don't require the use of non-external scripts but I agree that a good tutorial is needed. What sort of form are you look at doing? Data submission? Contact forms ( see this tutorial http://www.actionscripts.org/tutorials/intermediate/php_send_mail/index.shtml )...

Cheers

Jesse

[rcorliss]

I agree, I have been searching all throughout the web, and reading books trying to figure out what seems like it should be simple to do..
I am interested a search form, but haven't seen any examples of them without using PHP.

- I need to be able to send a value from FLASH (a text input field) and send it to a Netscape Enterprise Server search script. I can do this easily in HTML, but FLASH seems to make it near imposible to accomplish...(I'm probably just missing something obvious).
i.e. I want to submit a search for the word "goldfish"
The user enters GOLDFISH into the flash text input box, and clicks on the SEARCH button. How do I send that variable to the "/search?" feature on Netscape enterprise server??? I've tried post, and it doesn't work the way I'd expect...

[Jesse]

give us the syntax the ns script uses...

is it something like

script.ns?searchTerm=word

...

Cheers

Jesse

[rcorliss]

It uses the following...

.../search?NS-query=whatever


There are other variables being passed as well, and I've tried the ! as well as & to seperate the variables being passed to the script, i.e.

.../search?NS-query=baseball&variable1=something1&variable2=something2

...but don't get the same results I get when just simply using html...

[Jesse]

Just make an input text field which stores the variable "NS-query" and then use

getURL ("myAsp.asp","","GET")

Cheers

Jesse