sending mail from flash 8 via php script

[fjellaksel]

Hi guys !

This scenario is a bit strange.
When sending an e-mail from flash 7 via php, everything works great.
But when published with player 8, the e-mail is sent with html code for the font properties.

Just wondering how I can just send a plain simple e-mail without all the embedded html font information from flash player 8?

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E-mail with flash 7 looks like this:
Name: inputed text

E-mail with flash 8 looks like this:
Name: <TEXTFORMAT LEADING=\"2\"><P ALIGN=\"LEFT\"><FONT FACE=\"Helvetica Condensed\" SIZE=\"12\" COLOR=\"#333333\" LETTERSPACING=\"0\" KERNING=\"0\">inputed text</FONT></P></TEXTFORMAT>

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Anyone know how not to send html in the mail?

[damooch]

I noticed the same problem in Flash 8 - has anyone come up with a solution yet??

[Flash Gordon]

PHP Code:

foreach($POST as $key => $value) {
  $key = strip_tags($value);
} 


or something like that should work.

[rommel]

Originally Posted by fjellaksel

Hi guys !

This scenario is a bit strange.
When sending an e-mail from flash 7 via php, everything works great.
But when published with player 8, the e-mail is sent with html code for the font properties.

Just wondering how I can just send a plain simple e-mail without all the embedded html font information from flash player 8?

----------------------------------------------------------
E-mail with flash 7 looks like this:
Name: inputed text

E-mail with flash 8 looks like this:
Name: <TEXTFORMAT LEADING=\"2\"><P ALIGN=\"LEFT\"><FONT FACE=\"Helvetica Condensed\" SIZE=\"12\" COLOR=\"#333333\" LETTERSPACING=\"0\" KERNING=\"0\">inputed text</FONT></P></TEXTFORMAT>

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Anyone know how not to send html in the mail?

dude could you show me how to send e-mail with flash(doesn't matter if it's flash 7)
I am trying to do this for over a month now with no succes.
please help me.

[passions pyre]

Hey all, following Flash Gordon, you can also do a simpler method.
On receiving the variables from Flash, i.e.:

$name = $_POST['name'];
$phone = $_POST['phone'];
$email = $_POST['email'];
$comment = $_POST['comment'];

Add strip_tags($_POST['variable']); around each, so that the final code looks like this:

$name = strip_tags($_POST['name']);
$phone = strip_tags($_POST['phone']);
$email = strip_tags($_POST['email']);
$comment = strip_tags($_POST['comment']);

Cheers!

[bauhous]

I don´t know if you have solved this yet, but I'll try to help anyway.

I had the exact same thing happen to me about 2 months ago. It took some digging, but I finally found the real reason it was happening and it has nothing to do with the php script.

Just check your input text fields in Flash and disable the "render text as html" button. Also select "Use device fonts". That's it!

Cheers,

[oleschmitt]

hey, this strip stuff really works!!!! That's what I was looking for. Thank you very much!!

PS.: I just needed to replace all "\n" and "\r" by "<br>" in order to have line feeds...

[Flash Gordon]

I posted an answer in that some where.

I striped the line breaks in Flash and feed it to PHP as an "Joined array" (e.g. "foo.::.bar.::" split(".::.")) . Then explode() the string in PHP and join it with <br>

Cheers.

[flykix]

Hey guys this sounds great but is this secure enough to prevent spambots from email header injections??? If there is a way that you can have a flash/php emailer that can get rid of spambots to prevent email header injections that would be so cool....

[Flash Gordon]

that needs to happen server side. I post a link to a really neat article about that somewhere in these forums.