on (release) {
 // did they enter an email addy yet?
 if (_root.email != "" && _root.email != null) {
  // This code generates a (hopefully) unique session
  // ID for this card. If you end up with overlaps you're either
  // very succesful or extremely unlucky
  myDate = new Date();
  ranNum = Math.round(Math.random()*1000000);
  ranChar = chr(Math.round(Math.random()*24)+97);
  session = (mydate.getMonth()+""+myDate.getDate()+""
   +mydate.getFullYear()+""+ranNum+ranChar);
  // Now we construct the layoutString which goes to the reader.swf
  layoutLength = items.length;
  for (j=0; j<layoutLength; j++) {
   name = items[j];
   xpos = _root[name+j+"x"];
   ypos = _root[name+j+"y"];
   text = escape(_root[name+j].text);
   // if the layoutString exists, append data
   if (layoutString != null) {
    layoutString = layoutString+","+name+","+xpos+","+ypos+","+text;
   } else {
    // layoutString doesn't exist, create it
    layoutString = name+","+xpos+","+ypos+","+text;
   }
  }
  // Since we're now going to send variables to a script, 
  // let's clean up those we don't need
  delete items;
  delete j;
  delete name;
  delete myDate;
  delete ranNum;
  delete ranChar;
  delete layoutLength;
  delete xpos;
  delete ypos;
  delete text;
  // Passing the variables:
  // Here I'm using LoadVariables because I want the user to
  // stay IN the flash file when they send their card. If you
  // want them to be re-directed to your PHP page use get URL
  // getURL ("e-card.php", "", "GET");
  loadVariablesNum ("e-card.php", 0, "GET");
 } else {
  // no email addy enterred, report error
  _root.email = "You didn't enter an email! :)";
 }
}