Using mail.php wih multiple variables

[duhuskermeg]

Hi all!

I have modified the mail.php to include multiple variables from flash. However, I cannot get it to work properly. Can anyone tell me what I'm doin' wrong here?

The original mail.php file:

<?php
mail("[email protected]", "Påmelding til" $KursID, $message, "From: AOF Kursbestilling\nReply-To: $from\nX-Mailer: PHP/" . phpversion());
?>

The modified file (the message-variable is replaved by multiple variables from flash):

<?php mail("[email protected]", "Påmelding til" $KursID,
"Påmelding til kurs hos AOF"\n\n
"Fornavn" $fornavn\n
"Etternavn" $etternavn\n
"Fødselsdato" $fdato\n
"Adresse" $adresse\n
"Postnummer" $postnr\n
"Poststed" $poststed\n
"Telefon" $telefon\n
"Mobil" $mobil\n
"Epost" $email\n\n
"Kursnummer" $KursID\n
"Kurs" $kurs_beskrivelse\n
"Sted" $kurs_sted\n
"Start dato" $kurs_startdato\n
"Start kloke" $kurs_startklokke\n
"Kursavgift" $kurs_avgift\n
, "From: AOF Kursbestilling\nReply-To: $email\nX-Mailer: PHP/" . phpversion());
?>

You see the point? I want to include the variables from my form in flash to a dynamic email-reply.

Thanx in advance! :)


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[Jesse]

The PHP string conatenation operator is the dot ( . ). You need to concatenate your strings, not just put them all next to each other:
$string1 = "my bear";
$string2 = "roar!";
$both = $string1 . " says " . $string2;
int he example above, $both will have the value 'my bear says roar!'. get it?

[duhuskermeg]

Oh! I totally forgot! :) Thanx!!

On the other hand, I guess I can send all the variables from flash, putting them together..

If message is the variablename thats beeing used by the php-script, then I can do the following in flash:

message = "Firstname: " add firstname add "\n" add "Lastname: " add lastname;

Do I have to consider something else if I do it this way?
I guess this is maybe the best solution if I want to use the same php-script for all forms..?



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[Jesse]

I would do it in Flash personally but remember there is a limit (it's big but I forget how big) on how much data you can send via GET... so don't have 100 pages strings sending from Flash b/c it will die :) also remember that if you build the string in PHP the newline character is "\n" with quotes, which you left out above.

[duhuskermeg]

Ok..

Now I've been fooling around with this for some time, and it seems like I can't seem to get the variables added together in flash before the form is sent to PHP...

Oh well.. It's 03:40 local time now, so I'll continue tomorrow. Thanx for all help.

When I get all this to work I can publish it somewhere so you guys won't have to do the same work and be draggin' out your hair in despair if it doesnt work the way it should.


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[nicewebguy]

The concantation operator in Flash is '+', not '.' like in PHP. You probably know that, but just in case that is the problem there.

Also the realistic maximum length of a URL (and hence a limiter for the GET method which puts all the data in a URL) is just 256 characters. Standard installations of Apache will handle much larger URLs, but you can't be sure it will work everywhere.

doug

[duhuskermeg]

Thanx for all help here.

This bit works totally fine now.
I did'nt know about the limit of 256 chars in GET..
Luckily I will only use this with my own apache server ;)


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