Help with Flash - PHP mail form

cleanxhost · #1 07-08-2008, 06:22 AM

Hi,
I've been working on this for days and can't seem to get it to work properly, maybe someone here will understand my problem and give me a helping hand...

I downloaded a flash template and finally edited it how I wanted. It has a built in contact form which I had to edit a few things and created a contact.php file which I uploaded to my server in the same directory as the files for this site.

When I fill in the contact form and press the "submit" button, it works fine and I receive the e-mail in my inbox, but...

In the e-mail I only get the following text which is in the contact form, but do not get the details that I filled in:

First Name:

Surname:

E-Mail:

Telephone:

Location:

Ages of children:

Message:

Can anyone help me fix this problem?

Here is the code of my contact.php file:

<?php
$your_firstname = $GET['firstname'];
$your_surname = $GET['surname'];
$your_email = $GET['email'];
$your_telephone = $GET['telephone'];
$your_location = $GET['location'];
$your_agesofchildren = $GET['agesofchildren'];
$your_location = $GET['location'];
$recipient_email = "info@babysitting.com";
$subject = "Babysitting Form " . $your_email;
$headers = "From: " . $your_name . " <" . $your_email . ">\n";
$headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1';
$content = "<html><head><title>Babysitting Form</title></head><body> ";
$content .= "First Name: " . $your_firstname . " ";
$content .= "Surname: " . $your_surname . " ";
$content .= "E-Mail: " . $your_email . " ";
$content .= "Telephone: " . $your_telephone . " <hr> ";
$content .= "Location: " . $your_location . " <hr> ";
$content .= "Ages of children: " . $your_agesofchildren . " <hr> ";
$content .= $your_message;
$content .= " </body><html>";
mail($recipient_email,$subject,$content,$headers);
?>
<html>
<body bgcolor=#282E2C">
<div align="center" style="margin-top:60px;color:#FFFFFF;font-size:11px;font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold">
Your message was successfully sent!
</div>
</body>
</html>
<script>resizeTo(300, 300)</script>

I'm not sure if it's a problem with the contact.php file or if I missed something out on the flash contact form.

Hope someone will be able to help me on this one as I've been trying for a day to figure this out and it's my very first website in flash.

regentronique · #2 07-08-2008, 09:12 AM

It looks that you forgot the underscore before the GET it should be $_GET not $GET.

Just in case, to know if you at least receive the data just write after the "<?php":

PHP Code:


			
print "Results received with GET:<br>";

print_r($_GET);

print "Results received with POST:<br>";

print_r($_POST);

exit;

It will print out what you should receive in arrays.

eLIANT · #3 07-08-2008, 10:23 AM

When calling contact.php with the GET method, you must include variable names and values in your call.

Like this:

Code:

$url = "contact.php?firstname=Davey&surname=Jones&etc";
Header ( "Location: $url");

cleanxhost · #4 07-08-2008, 03:24 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by regentronique

It looks that you forgot the underscore before the GET it should be $_GET not $GET.

Just in case, to know if you at least receive the data just write after the "<?php":

PHP Code:


			
print "Results received with GET:<br>";
print_r($_GET);
print "Results received with POST:<br>";
print_r($_POST);
exit;

It will print out what you should receive in arrays.

.................................................. .......................

Still no luck...

Have added the underscore but no luck.

Have added that bit of code and this is what I get:

Results received with GET:
Array ( [firstname] => First Name [surname] => Surname [email] => E-Mail [telephone] => Telephone [location] => Location [agesofchildren] => Ages of children [message] => Message ) Results received with POST:
Array ( )

Maybe it's a fault with the coding on the flash website.
I have added it below to see if it seems ok or if there is something missing. This is the code for the submit button:

on(rollOver){b2.gotoAndPlay(2);
}
on(rollOut, releaseOutside){b2.gotoAndPlay(9);
}
on (release) {
_parent.getURL("contact.php","_blank","GET");
_parent.firstname= "First Name";
_parent.surname= "Surname";
_parent.email= "E-Mail";
_parent.telephone= "Telephone";
_parent.location= "Location";
_parent.agesofchildren= "Ages of children";
_parent.message= "Message";
}

regentronique · #5 07-08-2008, 06:31 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by cleanxhost

.................................................. .......................

Still no luck...

Have added the underscore but no luck.

Have added that bit of code and this is what I get:

Results received with GET:
Array ( [firstname] => First Name [surname] => Surname [email] => E-Mail [telephone] => Telephone [location] => Location [agesofchildren] => Ages of children [message] => Message ) Results received with POST:
Array ( )

Maybe it's a fault with the coding on the flash website.
I have added it below to see if it seems ok or if there is something missing. This is the code for the submit button:

on(rollOver){b2.gotoAndPlay(2);
}
on(rollOut, releaseOutside){b2.gotoAndPlay(9);
}
on (release) {
_parent.getURL("contact.php","_blank","GET");
_parent.firstname= "First Name";
_parent.surname= "Surname";
_parent.email= "E-Mail";
_parent.telephone= "Telephone";
_parent.location= "Location";
_parent.agesofchildren= "Ages of children";
_parent.message= "Message";
}

You are assigning the textual values yourself, instead of getting the values entered by the contact form. It is just normal that you always receive the same thing each time!

Use your contact form values instead...

cleanxhost · #6 07-09-2008, 05:32 AM

I'm really banging my head now...

What do the "contact form values" look like? Are they single letters like a,b,c,etc?

Do I also have to change them in the "contact.php" script?

This is getting really hard but I want to learn how to do this.

for your help.

regentronique · #7 07-09-2008, 12:23 PM

For more accurate answers you would need to post the entire flash script to be able to know the real fields name and troubleshoot more...

From what i see the fields you are filling with your data are not the ones sent.

cleanxhost · #8 07-09-2008, 04:16 PM

Hello again Regentronique,

I really appreciate your time trying to help me with my problem, I have added a link after this text with the info that you specified above.
Many thanks once again for taking the time to help me.

Here is the link to my files:
http://www.rosamaribaby-sitting.com/...NGTESTSITE.rar

cleanxhost · #9 07-22-2008, 06:09 PM

OK, I give up with this, just haven't got the time to try anything else to fix this problem, I have tried and got it to sort of work, but now I'm missing the popup message that says" your form has been sent succesfully"....

So... I can't remember the web address, but someone here has got to know it, it's a place where you post the job that you want done, put a price and people bid or something like that...

Can someone please give me the URL of this website... before I go crazyyyyyyyyyyyy...

Best Regards and thankyou for trying to help me out on this one

hostcurry · #10 07-23-2008, 12:32 AM

look at http://forums.digitalpoint.com/forumdisplay.php?f=103 for help

regentronique · #11 07-23-2008, 10:33 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by cleanxhost

OK, I give up with this, just haven't got the time to try anything else to fix this problem, I have tried and got it to sort of work, but now I'm missing the popup message that says" your form has been sent succesfully"....

So... I can't remember the web address, but someone here has got to know it, it's a place where you post the job that you want done, put a price and people bid or something like that...

Can someone please give me the URL of this website... before I go crazyyyyyyyyyyyy...

Best Regards and thankyou for trying to help me out on this one

Is it RentACoder.com you are looking for?

cleanxhost · #12 07-23-2008, 03:20 PM

Thanks very much again regentronique, that's exactly the one that I was looking for!

Thanks for the other link hostcurry but I had that forum already in my bookmarks, but the problem with that forum is that they don't let you post straight away after signing up, I think you have to wait a week or so...

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