Flash Form - Processing with PHP problem

Thread view:

Enable EMail Alerts

Start New Thread

Thread rating:

jsolo2001 - 29 May 2008 14:41 GMT

I'm processing my Flash Form by sending the form to a PHP script. The script
then emails the form's variables to me, but when I get my form through the
email, I get these obtrusive variables with information I don't want and makes
the information hard to find. Here's a couple of examples of the variables
I've recieved.

Name: <TEXTFORMAT LEADING=\"2\">Monkey
Test</TEXTFORMAT>
Email: <TEXTFORMAT LEADING=\"2\">monkey@monkey</TEXTFORMAT>

I've included my PHP script in case that's the problem, but the script works
perfectly fine in a HTML form. Any help or suggestions would be greatly
appreciated, thanks.

<?php
$sendTo = "nada@nada.com";
$subject = "Nada Form";

$name=$_POST['nameField'];
$email=$_POST['emailField'];
$phone=$_POST['phoneField'];
$fax=$_POST['faxField'];
$address=$_POST['addressField'];
$message=$_POST['messageField'];

$name=trim($name);
$email=trim($email);
$phone=trim($phone);
$fax=trim($fax);
$address=stripslashes($address);
$message=stripslashes($message);

$fullMessage = "Name: ".$name."\nEmail: ".$email."\nPhone: ".$phone."\nFax:
".$fax."\nAddress: ".$address."\nMessage: ".$message;

$headers .= "Reply-To: " . $_POST["emailField"] . "\r\n";
$headers .= "Return-path: " . $_POST["emailField"];

mail($sendTo, $subject, $fullMessage);
?>

Reply to this Message

Raymond Basque - 30 May 2008 12:00 GMT

Looks like you're posting TextField.htmlText instead of TextField.text

Reply to this Message

amagen - 02 Jun 2008 19:22 GMT

I a having the same problem. RB,will you please expound on your response? Thank you

Reply to this Message

jsolo2001 - 03 Jun 2008 03:26 GMT

Hey guys, glad to know that other people have encountered the same problem!
Raymond I looked up TextField.html in the help section in Flash, it came up but
I'm not sure how to incorporate this into my action script. Here's the example
I found, would something along these lines be all the Actionscript I need?

this.createTextField("my_txt", this.getNextHighestDepth(), 10, 10, 400, 22);
my_txt.html = true;

Thanks

Reply to this Message

Raymond Basque - 03 Jun 2008 10:58 GMT

You need to make sure your form submission sends the plain text value of the
TextField. You do not want to send TextField.htmlText if the html property
is set to true.

Here's a simple example of what happens when you set TextField.html to true
and get the htmlText value.

var tf:TextField =
this.createTextField("my_txt",
this.getNextHighestDepth(),
10, 10, 400, 22);

tf.text = "Hello World!";

// set html to true
// the htmlText and text properties
// return different values
tf.html = true;
trace(tf.text);
trace(tf.htmlText);

// set html to false
// both htmlText and text properties
// return the same value
tf.html = false;
trace(tf.text);
trace(tf.htmlText);

Reply to this Message

jsolo2001 - 04 Jun 2008 16:23 GMT

Thanks for the example Raymond. I tried your script and have a clear idea of
how this text stuff works. The only thing is that I'm not sure how to apply
this to my form. How to send the results from e.g. -

tf.html = false;

- through email, if it's a input field. Here's my code for my submit button,
nothing fancy just gather up the variables and send.

on (release) {
if (nameField eq "" || emailField eq "" || messageField eq "") {
errorBox._x= 120;
} else {
loadVariablesNum("process.php", 0, "POST");
gotoAndStop(2);
}
}

I have a total of 6 input variables - nameField, emailField, messageField,
phoneField, faxField and addressField. What would I have to do to get the
"html=false" results to send. Add more code? If you could provide me with
another example of code for input fields that'd be great. Thanks for your help
again.

Reply to this Message

Raymond Basque - 04 Jun 2008 18:40 GMT

OK. I've never used variables attached to TextFields, but a quick test
indicates default behavior to be that if the TextField is set to "Render as
HTML" (TextField.html=true), the variable will be populated with the
htmlText value.

It would seem that the easiest way to change that behavior is to select each
TextField and unselect the property in the properties panel.

Reply to this Message

Webmaster Forum / Flash / Data Integration / June 2008

Flash Form - Processing with PHP problem