[Dougielove]

I have a serious issue. First off I have little experience with .php. The only experience I do have is when I modify these mail forms that I make with Flash.

Previously, I have been able to successfully create these forms in Flash with a .php file on the server. No issues at all.

Now, I don't know what has changed but the form template I have used in the past isn't working. I can send the info to connect with the PHP file on the server but my email I receive is blank. Same with 80% of the files, tutorials, examples I find on the net they just give me blank emails. The other 20% of examples don't work at all.

My previous ones don't work, the ones on the net where all I really have to do is change the email recipient on the PHP don't work. Nothing is working all of a sudden. I have no time to figure all of this out. And I have nothing to work with. I thought at least if I could get one of these examples from the internet to work then I'd have a starting point...but with no starting point I am screwed.

Does anyone have a form like this that WORKS! Or could anyone point me the right way. And why all of a sudden does this not work. It seems sooooo straight forward. I am running Flash 8 Pro on Vista if that helps

Thanks and please help me! Please.

[bizzar528]

I'd say post the code your using to generate the emails and we'll probably be able to tell you why it's not working. There are a lot of things that can affect email.

[Dougielove]

submit button on .swf file is



on (release) {
if (!Email.length || Email.indexOf("@") == -1 || Email.indexOf(".") == -1) {
EmailStatus = "Please enter a valid E-mail address";
}

else if (!FirstName.length) {
EmailStatus = "Please Enter your name before Sending";
}

else if (!ToComments.length) {
EmailStatus = "Please enter some text in you message";
}

else {
loadVariablesNum("snowMailPHP.php", "0", "POST");
EmailStatus = "Sending... one Moment .. or two.. sometimes it's faster then other times";

}
}

snowmail.php


<?

$ToEmail = "xxxxxxx@xxxxxxxx.com";

$ToName = "xxxxxxx";
$ToSubject = "Property Evaluation Form Filled Out From Website";

$EmailBody = "Sent By: $_POST[First]\n\n";
$EmailBody = "$_POST[Last]\n\n";
$EmailBody .= "Senders Email: $_POST[Email]\n\n";
$EmailBody .= "Senders Day Phone: $_POST[Phone]\n\n";
$EmailBody .= "*********************************************\n\n ";
$EmailBody .= "*****************HOME DETAILS****************\n\n";
$EmailBody .= "*********************************************\n\n ";
$EmailBody .= "Address: $_POST[Address]\n\n";
$EmailBody .= "City: $_POST[City]\n\n";
$EmailBody .= "Postal Code: $_POST[Postal]\n\n";
$EmailBody .= "Type of Home: $_POST[Type]\n\n";
$EmailBody .= "Square Footage: $_POST[Footage]\n\n";
$EmailBody .= "# of bedrooms: $_POST[Bedrooms]\n\n";
$EmailBody .= "# of bathrooms: $_POST[Bathrooms]\n\n";
$EmailBody .= "Year Built: $_POST[Year]\n\n";
$EmailBody .= "Additional Features/Comments:\n";
$EmailBody .= "$_POST[ToComments]\n";


$EmailFooter="\nThis message was sent by: $_POST[First]\n from $REMOTE_ADDR\n";

$Message = $EmailBody.$EmailFooter;

mail($ToName." <".$ToEmail.">",$ToSubject, $Message, "From: ".$First." <".$Email.">");


Print "_root.Mail.EmailStatus=Complete - Your mail has been sent";

?>

[bizzar528]

here is how I would write that... only some minor cosmetic changes... I'm not so sure about that last Print statement. I'm guessing it's supposed to pass that value back to the swf, but I haven't used that method before so I'm not sure. You might also want to check your error_log file to see if there might be a php error that isn't getting shown. That might give you a little more information as to what's failing.

Edit:: You probably should scrub your $_POST input to make sure that malicious code isn't used to send spam through your form. Sometimes they add a \r\n to an input to add additional email values and to send garbage. Limit the character count of the input, and which characters are acceptable (block the \ from the posts) and you should be safer.

PHP Code:

<?php



$ToEmail = "xxxxxxx@xxxxxxxx.com";



$ToName = "xxxxxxx";

$ToSubject = "Property Evaluation Form Filled Out From Website";



$EmailBody = "Sent By: ".$_POST['First']."\n\n";

$EmailBody .= $_POST['Last']."\n\n";

$EmailBody .= "Senders Email: ".$_POST['email']."\n\n";

$EmailBody .= "Senders Day Phone: ".$_POST['Phone']."\n\n";

$EmailBody .= "*********************************************\n\n";

$EmailBody .= "*****************HOME DETAILS****************\n\n";

$EmailBody .= "*********************************************\n\n";

$EmailBody .= "Address: ".$_POST['Address']."\n\n";

$EmailBody .= "City: ".$_POST['City']."\n\n";

$EmailBody .= "Postal Code: ".$_POST['Postal']."\n\n";

$EmailBody .= "Type of Home: ".$_POST['Type']."\n\n";

$EmailBody .= "Square Footage: ".$_POST['Footage']."\n\n";

$EmailBody .= "# of bedrooms: ".$_POST['Bedrooms']."\n\n";

$EmailBody .= "# of bathrooms: ".$_POST['Bathrooms']."\n\n";

$EmailBody .= "Year Built: ".$_POST['Year']."\n\n";

$EmailBody .= "Additional Features/Comments:\n";

$EmailBody .= $_POST['ToComments']."\n";



$EmailFooter="\nThis message was sent by: ".$_POST['First']."\n from ".$_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']."\n";



$Message = $EmailBody.$EmailFooter;



mail($ToName." <".$ToEmail.">", $ToSubject, $Message, "From: ".$First." <".$Email.">");



Print "_root.Mail.EmailStatus=Complete - Your mail has been sent";



?>

[mjoyce71]

Doug,

Try these guys -> formmailhosting.com - They take care of all the email sending and put the sender in the reply to field. They also save the submissions as MS Excel (nice feature). You can make their forms work with Flash with little problems at all.

Mark.