ActionScript 3.0 and PHP

[Myth of Echelon]

Okay, so for a college assignment I need to make a website (which is done and dusted). This website contains a questionnaire so that users can anonymously submit feedback regarding the website. Originally, it was pseudo-functional - you could input text, click checkboxes and clear all data to start again but that's it. Variable stores were cleared as soon as the frame was exited. Today, I decided to add coding so that results could actually be emailed to me from within the Flash application - the SWF.

 

Apparently, there is already a .php file hosted at "http://www.actionscript.tv/email.php"'>http://www.actionscript.tv/email.php" (as stated within a Flash lesson file and an official Flash AS3 book I bought). I am currently using this to try and successfully submit a basic email.

The coding inside this .php file is:

"<?php

 

$sendTo = $_POST["sEmail"];

 

$subject = $_POST["sSubject"];

 

$headers = "From: " . $_POST["sName"] . "<" . $_POST["sEmail"] .">\r\n";

 

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

 

 

$headers .= "Return-path: " . $_POST["sEmail"];

 

 

 

$message = $_POST["sMessage"];

 

 

mail($sendTo, $subject, $message, $headers);

 

?>"

 

 

and my ActionScript 3 coding is:

 

"import flash.net.URLVariables;

import flash.net.URLRequest;

import flash.events.Event;

 

var note:String;

var now:Date = new Date();

var variables:URLVariables = new URLVariables();

var mailAddress:URLRequest = new URLRequest("http://www.actionscript.tv/email.php");

 

subButton.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, emailClick);

 

function emailClick(evt:Event){

if (yes1Count == true && yes2Count == true){

note = "These results have come back from a completed Simply Buy Questionnaire:" + "\n\n" + "The participant heard of us from " + formMov.textBox1.text + "\n" + "The participant found what they were looking for and was satisfied with their user experience" + "\n" + "The participant commented, regarding if there were any aspects they would wish to change: " + formMov.textBox4.text + "\n" + "The participant also added the following comments: " + formMov.textBox5.text + "\n\n" + "These results were submitted on " + now

trace(note);

} else if (no1Count == true && no2Count == true){

note = "These results have come back from a completed Simply Buy Questionnaire:" + "\n\n" + "The participant heard of us from " + formMov.textBox1.text + "\n" + "The participant did not find what they were looking for and was not satisfied with their user experience" + "\n" + "The participant commented, regarding if there were any aspects they would wish to change: " + formMov.textBox4.text + "\n" + "The participant also added the following comments: " + formMov.textBox5.text + "\n\n" + "These results were submitted on " + now

trace(note);

} else if (no1Count == true && yes2Count == true){

note = "These results have come back from a completed Simply Buy Questionnaire:" + "\n\n" + "The participant heard of us from " + formMov.textBox1.text + "\n" + "The participant did not find what they were looking for but was satisfied with their user experience" + "\n" + "The participant commented, regarding if there were any aspects they would wish to change: " + formMov.textBox4.text + "\n" + "The participant also added the following comments: " + formMov.textBox5.text + "\n\n" + "These results were submitted on " + now

trace(note);

} else if (yes1Count == true && no2Count == true){

note = "These results have come back from a completed Simply Buy Questionnaire:" + "\n\n" + "The participant heard of us from " + formMov.textBox1.text + "\n" + "The participant found what they were looking for but was not satisfied with their user experience" + "\n" + "The participant commented, regarding if there were any aspects they would wish to change: " + formMov.textBox4.text + "\n" + "The participant also added the following comments: " + formMov.textBox5.text + "\n\n" + "These results were submitted on " + now

trace(note);

}

 

variables.sEmail = "myth.of.echelon@live.com";

variables.sMessage = note;

variables.sSubject = "Questionnaire Results";

 

mailAddress.data = variables;

mailAddress.method = URLRequestMethod.POST;

sendToURL(mailAddress);

}"

 

 

I am not receiving emails when the submit button is clicked. As I am receiving no debug errors when the .swf is compiled and I am receiving feedback from the trace(); functions inside the IF statements, I am inclined to think that the .php is no longer hosted or is incorrectly constructed, for this particular usage. (UPDATE: Upon entering just "www.actionscript.tv" I noticed the website does not exist anymore/never did.)

 

So, to sum up, I need assistance/advice on how to host and use this .php file (as the AS3 is tailored to it) for free to send user results to my email address.

[Scotteh]

The reason nobody has helped you yet is because in comparison to most websites, we've only just started and haven't got an expert in this current field as of yet.

[webdevuser]

I'm sorry for answering a old topic, but anyway, the solution is quite simple.

 

Change

var mailAddress:URLRequest = new URLRequest("http://www.actionscript.tv/email.php");

 

to

var mailAddress:URLRequest = new URLRequest("email.php");

 

Create a new file in your webserver named : email.php

 

add the following content in it.

 

<?php

$sendTo = $_POST["sEmail"];

$subject = $_POST["sSubject"];

$headers = "From: " . $_POST["sName"] . "<" . $_POST["sEmail"] .">\r\n";

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


$headers .= "Return-path: " . $_POST["sEmail"];



$message = $_POST["sMessage"];


mail($sendTo, $subject, $message, $headers);

?>