Submit button / Posting Variables

jdn1 · February 5, 2007

Hiya Noob here

Have been using swishmax to compile a small rego form. Only i cant seem to get the submit button happening.

I have three fields of input text i need to post to e-mail...

I have been reading tutorials but they just dont seem right ?

any help would be appreciated. i can put wat i have up so far on my domain ?

fenway · February 5, 2007

A link to the site would be helpful, yes.

jdn1 · February 5, 2007

http://jdn1.8888mb.com/tourney%20reg.html

thks

fenway · February 5, 2007

I see a white page... post the code snippet, and what you mean by "happening".

jdn1 · February 5, 2007

http://jdn1.8888mb.com/tourney.html (i renamed the url) this is a flash form you may be seeing the white box because you done have a flash player installed? Allthough it is a common thing to have..?

what i mean is. i have 3 data entry boxes on the flash form a email, quake 4 alias , xfire tag.

and i want for the user to click the submit button and have the variables sent to the contact.php and then forwarded to my e-mail containg the 3 details...if that makes sense :S

submit button when clicked script....if i did it right?

on (release) {

q4_alias = q4_alias.text;

Xfire = Xfire.text;

email = email.text;

loadVariables("contact.php",'POST');

}

contact.php

<?php

$q4_alias = $HTTP_POST_VARS['q4_alias'];

$Xfire = $HTTP_POST_VARS['Xfire'];

$email = $HTTP_POST_VARS['email'];

$message = stripslashes($message);

$sendTo = "jay_niesler@hotmail.com";

$subject = "Registration Form";

$msg_body = "q4_alias: $q4_alias\n";

$msg_body .= "Xfire: $Xfire\n";

$msg_body .= "email: $email\n";

$header_info = "From: ".$name." <".$email.">";

mail($sendTo, $subject, $msg_body, $header_info);

?>

html of the flash form

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html40/loose.dtd">

<html>

<head>

<title>tourney reg</title>

</head>

<object

classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"

codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,79,0"

id="tourney_reg"

width="800" height="600"

>

<embed

type="application/x-shockwave-flash"

pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"

name="tourney_reg"

width="800" height="600"

src="tourney reg.swf"

bgcolor="#FFFFFF"

quality="high"

swliveconnect="true"

allowscriptaccess="samedomain"

>

</noembed>

</embed>

</object>

</center>

</body>

</html>

fenway · February 5, 2007

Well, yes, flash is less than ideal for functionality... anyway, though, I'm not sure I understand. if you use a form action, why doesn't the script handle this? or are you posting back to itself?

jdn1 · February 6, 2007

Hmm well i dont think its that rally different from a standard form?

If you had a standard html form with 3 input text boxes

1. name

2. email

3 username

and upon a person entering those details and hitting the submit button those 3 data entry are to be posted to my e-mail.

(the variables get posted to text files and then the contact.php with the right code is supposed to mail them)

the swishmax comes with some scripts, it has a mial to script, this script opens up outlokk express so the user can send you an email. Thats not wat i want though.

Check this url it might give you some sorta understanding as to what i am on about.

http://www.swishzone.com/index.php?area=resources&tab=tutorials&do=page&action=detailed&link_id=152

fenway · February 6, 2007

I do think it's very different... but that doesn't address you initial question. Sounds like you want a back-end script that sends and e-mail to you with POST data. If so, I'll move this to the PHP help thread.

jdn1 · February 6, 2007

You know that sounds pretty spot on! If you could move it to the right location i would appreciate it. Also thanks for your time and effort so far..

jdn1 · February 6, 2007

Is any body able to help me out to tell me a brief description on how php works. outputting text to variables then posting with a .php script to an email address?

cheers

The_Assistant · February 10, 2007

Try this instead:

contact.php

<?php

$q4_alias = $_POST['q4_alias'];
$Xfire = $_POST['Xfire'];
$email = $_POST['email'];

$message = stripslashes($message);

$sendTo = "jay_niesler@hotmail.com";
$subject = "Registration Form";

$msg_body = "q4_alias:  $q4_alias\n";
$msg_body .= "Xfire:  $Xfire\n";
$msg_body .= "email:  $email\n";

$header_info = "From: ".$name." <".$email.">";

mail($sendTo, $subject, $msg_body, $header_info);

?>

jdn1 · February 10, 2007

OK cool i will give that a go.

Here another noob question for you when i upload the the html, the swishmax movie file and the contact.php file.

Do they just sit on my we site in the same folder and when ppl fill out the form should that script automatically post thopse variables to my e-mail ?

Or does the script have to be loaded or put some where special ?

Cheers

The_Assistant · February 11, 2007

it should be alright in the same directory. just make sure you keep existing directory structures when you upload the files. if you do decide you want to put the files in different directories then just change the locations in your scripts.

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