05-11-2004, 08:57 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: May 2004
Posts: 6
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form, form, form, form!!!
I am having a most stressful conflict with forms. I made a form in flash mx and i named all the variables correctly, then i made a submit button, i put this as the actionscript:
on(release){
recipient = " [email protected]";
subject = "Form Submission";
getURL(".../formmail.pl","_blank","GET");
getURL("index.htm","_self");
}
It doesn't work! I put the formmail.pl in the right directory and I changed it to the preferences suggested. I need to know some way of going about making a form work on here. Please help me! 
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05-11-2004, 10:06 PM
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#2
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Super Moderator
Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: NYC
Posts: 10,175
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I'd suggest you use LoadVars()
PHP Code:
on(release){
myData = New loadVars();
mydata.recipient = "[email protected]";
myData.subject = "Form Submission";
myData.onLoad = function(success) {
if(success){
//do something here
}
};
myData.Load(".../formmail.pl",myData, "POST");
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05-11-2004, 10:12 PM
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#3
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Member
Join Date: May 2004
Posts: 63
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may not be worth mentioning but common mistakes with mail forms are also
relative path:
so instead of ../formmail.pl -> http://www.fulldomain.com/pathtocgi/formmail.pl
secondly (sorry if this is insulting but I have supported these issues and this comes up again and again).
ensure that your formmail.pl does not give you internal server errors by sending an HTML form to it or tracing the value of the pl file like this:
PHP Code:
plFileDisplay = myData.Load(".../formmail.pl",myData, "POST");
trace (plFileDisplay);
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05-12-2004, 08:02 AM
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#4
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Join Date: May 2004
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Yeah, I know, I put the entire url to the formmail. I didn't want to show it on here, I could have used a false name, but I was about to fall asleep when I posted, thanks. I'll try that when I get back to my computer. I'm willing to try almost anything now. I don't have alot of Flash experience, I am still in high school, but I'm tryin, thanks again. The actionscript that I used has worked before for me on a different website, I really don't understand the problems this time. Thanks though.
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05-12-2004, 02:10 PM
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#5
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The Thread Collector
Join Date: May 2003
Location: the far side
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dont u want to send the info the the site the retreive something?
myData.sendAndLoad(...);
Last edited by stealthelephant; 05-12-2004 at 02:14 PM.
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05-12-2004, 02:35 PM
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#6
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Super Moderator
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Location: NYC
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Oh wow, thanks stealthelephant for pointing out that error, it should be myData.Send, not myData.Load
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05-12-2004, 05:22 PM
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#7
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Where you put "// do something here" I really don't know what to put there. I am not experienced with actionscript at all.
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05-12-2004, 07:24 PM
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Super Moderator
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Location: NYC
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lets say you have a text box that you want to display a success message to the user, you can put the code for that there, if you dont want anything to happen, then you can omit that part all together.
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05-12-2004, 07:35 PM
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thanks alot, now I just have to try it!
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05-12-2004, 07:40 PM
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#10
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Join Date: May 2004
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are you sure it is = New loadVars();
it reads that as an error.
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