PHP Form

[Nick Toye]

Hi

I have a problem php recognising my flash variables, I am using textInput boxes from the components section.

This is my code:



// set some variables
//
mailform = "mailform.php";
confirm = "thank you a confirmation email has been sent to your email address.";
action = "send";
error1 = "valid email required";
error2 = "input required";
//
// and focus on variable fname
//

//
// validate email function
//
function validate(address) {
if (address.length>=7) {
if (address.indexOf("@")>0) {
if ((address.indexOf("@")+2)<address.lastIndexOf(".")) {
if (address.lastIndexOf(".")<(address.length-2)) {
return (true);
}
}
}
}
return (false);
}
//
// clear form
function clearform() {
name.text = "";
company.text = "";
number.text = "";
email.text = "";
from.text = "";
to.text = "";
weight.text = "";
}
// form check
//
function formcheck() {
if ((((email.text == null)) || (email.text.length<1)) || (email.text == "valid email required")) {
email.text = error1;
action = "";
}
if (!validate(email.text)) {
email.text = error1;
action = "";
}
if ((name.text == null) || (name.text == "")) {
name.text = error2;
action = "";
}
if ((company.text == null) || (company.text == "")) {
company.text = error2;
action = "";
}
if ((number.text == null) || (number.text == "")) {
number.text = error2;
action = "";
}
if ((from.text == null) || (from.text == "")) {
from.text = error2;
action = "";
}
if ((to.text == null) || (to.text == "")) {
to.text = error2;
action = "";
}
if ((weight.text == null) || (weight.text == "")) {
weight.text = error2;
action = "";
}
if ((validate(email.text)) && (email.text != error1) && (name.text != "") && (name.text != error2) && (company.text != "") && (company.text != error2) && (number.text != "") && (number.text != error2) && (from.text != "") && (from.text != error2) && (to.text != "") && (to.text != error2) && (weight.text != "") && (weight.text != error2)) {
action = "send";
loadVariablesNum(mailform, 0, "POST");
}
}
stop();


my php code is:



<?

$adminaddress = "info@nicktoye.co.uk";
$siteaddress ="http://www.keepcouriers.co.uk";
$sitename = "Keep Couriers";

//No need to change anything below ...
// Gets the date and time from your server
$date = date("m/d/Y H:i:s");

// Gets the IP Address
if ($REMOTE_ADDR == "") $ip = "no ip";
else $ip = getHostByAddr($REMOTE_ADDR);

// Gets the POST Headers - the Flash variables
$action = $HTTP_POST_VARS['action'] ;
$email = $HTTP_POST_VARS['email.text'] ;
$name = $HTTP_POST_VARS['name'] ;
$company = $HTTP_POST_VARS['company.text'] ;
$number = $HTTP_POST_VARS['number.text'] ;
$from = $HTTP_POST_VARS['from.text'] ;
$to = $HTTP_POST_VARS['to.text'] ;
$weight = $HTTP_POST_VARS['weight.text'] ;

//Process the form data!
// and send the information collected in the Flash form to Your nominated email address

if ($action == "send") {
//
mail ("$adminaddress","Info Request",
"A visitor at $sitename has left the following information\n
Name: $name
Email: $email\n
The visitor commented:
------------------------------
From: $company
Contact Me On $number
I want a quote for delivering a parcel $from
to $to
at an approximate weight of $weight

Logged Info :
------------------------------
Using: $HTTP_USER_AGENT
Hostname: $ip
IP address: $REMOTE_ADDR
Date/Time: $date","FROM:$adminaddress" ) ;

//This sends a confirmation to your visitor
mail ("$email","Thank You for visiting $sitename",
"Hi $name,\n
Thank you for your interest in $sitename!\n
Cheers,
$sitename
$siteaddress","FROM:$adminaddress") ;

//Confirmation is sent back to the Flash form that the process is complete
$sendresult = "Thank you. You will receive a confirmation email shortly.";
$send_answer = "answer=";
$send_answer .= rawurlencode($sendresult);
echo $send_answer;
} //


?>



Many thanks in advance

[hamza84]

change:

$action = $HTTP_POST_VARS['action'] ;
$email = $HTTP_POST_VARS['email.text'] ;
$name = $HTTP_POST_VARS['name'] ;
$company = $HTTP_POST_VARS['company.text'] ;
$number = $HTTP_POST_VARS['number.text'] ;
$from = $HTTP_POST_VARS['from.text'] ;
$to = $HTTP_POST_VARS['to.text'] ;
$weight = $HTTP_POST_VARS['weight.text'] ;

to:

$action = $HTTP_POST_VARS['action'] ;
$email = $HTTP_POST_VARS['email'] ;
$name = $HTTP_POST_VARS['name'] ;
$company = $HTTP_POST_VARS['company'] ;
$number = $HTTP_POST_VARS['number'] ;
$from = $HTTP_POST_VARS['from'] ;
$to = $HTTP_POST_VARS['to'] ;
$weight = $HTTP_POST_VARS['weight'] ;

[Nick Toye]

No it is still sending me blank emails, is it my actionscript that is wrong, should the input boxes just be a variable rather than say name.text. Its just that they are components and I have to declare them as .text in my reset button function.

[kill.robot.kill]

What version of php are you using? If you are using something that is higher than 4.1.9 then you need to change all $HTTP_POST_VARS['var'] to $_POST['var']

*edit, you can find out by looking at your phpinfo() page, or you can make one by just putting

<?php
phpinfo();
?>

on a blank page.

[Nick Toye]

No still doesn't work.

It didn't send an email at all.

But before I changed it the email sent but did not send the variables.

Is it the flash file?

[hamza84]

it really doesnt matter if you use $HTTP_POST_VARS or $_POST :)

[hamza84]

have you given the text boxes in flash their instance names?

[Nick Toye]

The textboxes are actually components and the names given for them are:

name
company
number
email
from
to
weight

[hamza84]

well, then give the components their instance names :)

[Nick Toye]

Yeah did that. This is my current code



// set some variables
//
mailform = "mailform.php";
confirm = "thanks";
action = "send";
error1 = "valid email required";
error2 = "input required";
//
//
//
formData = new LoadVars();
formData.name = "name";
formData.company = "company";
formData.number = "number";
formData.email = "email";
formData.from = "from";
formData.to = "to";
formData.weight = "weight";
//
// validate email function
//
function validate(address) {
if (address.length>=7) {
if (address.indexOf("@")>0) {
if ((address.indexOf("@")+2)<address.lastIndexOf(".")) {
if (address.lastIndexOf(".")<(address.length-2)) {
return (true);
}
}
}
}
return (false);
}
//
// clear form
function clearform() {
name.text = "";
company.text = "";
number.text = "";
email.text = "";
from.text = "";
to.text = "";
weight.text = "";
radioGroup.setValue("false");
}
// form check
//
function formcheck() {
if ((((email.text == null)) || (email.text.length<1)) || (email.text == "valid email required")) {
email.text = error1;
action = "";
}
if (!validate(email.text)) {
email.text = error1;
action = "";
}
if ((name.text == null) || (name.text == "")) {
name.text = error2;
action = "";
}
if ((company.text == null) || (company.text == "")) {
company.text = error2;
action = "";
}
if ((number.text == null) || (number.text == "")) {
number.text = error2;
action = "";
}
if ((from.text == null) || (from.text == "")) {
from.text = error2;
action = "";
}
if ((to.text == null) || (to.text == "")) {
to.text = error2;
action = "";
}
if ((weight.text == null) || (weight.text == "")) {
weight.text = error2;
action = "";
}
if ((validate(email.text)) && (email.text != error1) && (name.text != "") && (name.text != error2) && (company.text != "") && (company.text != error2) && (number.text != "") && (number.text != error2) && (from != "") && (from.text != error2) && (to.text != "") && (to.text != error2) && (weight.text != "") && (weight.text != error2)) {
action = "send";
formData.sendAndLoad("mailform.php", formData, "POST");
}
}
stop();




<?

$adminaddress = "info@nicktoye.co.uk";
$siteaddress ="http://www.keepcouriers.co.uk";
$sitename = "Keep Couriers";

//No need to change anything below ...
// Gets the date and time from your server
$date = date("m/d/Y H:i:s");

// Gets the IP Address
if ($REMOTE_ADDR == "") $ip = "no ip";
else $ip = getHostByAddr($REMOTE_ADDR);

// Gets the POST Headers - the Flash variables
$action = $_POST['action'] ;
$email = $_POST['email.text'] ;
$name = $_POST['name'] ;
$company = $_POST['company.text'] ;
$number = $_POST['number.text'] ;
$from = $_POST['from.text'] ;
$to = $_POST['to.text'] ;
$weight = $_POST['weight.text'] ;


//Process the form data!
// and send the information collected in the Flash form to Your nominated email address

if ($action == "send") {
//
mail ("$adminaddress","Info Request",
"A visitor at $sitename has left the following information\n
Name: $name
Email: $email\n
The visitor commented:
------------------------------
From: $company
Contact Me On $number
I want a quote for delivering a parcel $from
to $to
at an approximate weight of $weight

Logged Info :
------------------------------
Using: $HTTP_USER_AGENT
Hostname: $ip
IP address: $REMOTE_ADDR
Date/Time: $date","FROM:$adminaddress" ) ;

//This sends a confirmation to your visitor
mail ("$email","Thank You for visiting $sitename",
"Hi $name,\n
Thank you for your interest in $sitename!\n
Cheers,
$sitename
$siteaddress","FROM:$adminaddress") ;

//Confirmation is sent back to the Flash form that the process is complete
$sendresult = "Thank you. You will receive a confirmation email shortly.";
$send_answer = "answer=";
$send_answer .= rawurlencode($sendresult);
echo $send_answer;
} //


?>



Can you see where I am going wrong.

I took out the component input boxes and just put in some standard input boxes, put the correct variable's in and it worked. So when I went back to my components way of doing things. It stopped working. I know that you can't specify a variable name for a component like you can for a standard input box, but i thought with loadVars you could.

Its probable simple I know that, but I can't see it.

[hamza84]

you could store the values of the components in variables and then use those for sendAndLoad(...)

[Nick Toye]

Is that not what I have done with:



formData = new LoadVars();
formData.name = "name";
formData.company = "company";
formData.number = "number";
formData.email = "email";
formData.from = "from";
formData.to = "to";
formData.weight = "weight";

[kill.robot.kill]

Ok, I am not very good at this thing, but there are two things I don't see, that I have used/included to successfully achieve what you are trying to do.
The first thing I don't see in your code is where you are setting the input box values to the LoadVar variables. Currently you have all the formData values given to strings. formData.name = "name"; is a string.


formData = new LoadVars();
formData.name = name.text;
formData.company = company.text;
formData.number = number.text;
formData.email = email.text;
formData.from = from.text;
formData.to = to.text;
formData.weight = weight.text;


The next thing I didn't see was an 'onload' function for the returned data. you can place this underneath your formData = LoadVars info, though I don't think it matters where it is placed.


formData.onLoad = function(success) {
trace("connected");
if(success) {
trace("send_answer = "+this.send_answer);
} else {
trace ("no returned data");
}
}

}


and change this in your php code.


$action = $_POST['action'] ;
$email = $_POST['email'] ;
$name = $_POST['name'] ;
$company = $_POST['company'] ;
$number = $_POST['number'] ;
$from = $_POST['from'] ;
$to = $_POST['to'] ;
$weight = $_POST['weight'] ;


get rid of all the '.text' Notice above we set all the values of '.text' to the formData vars, so that is all you will need.

[Nick Toye]

ok so how would i change the formData part to assign the values to variables, i actually thought i had done that, but if i have done it wrong can you tell me the right way

[kill.robot.kill]

Originally posted by hamza84
it really doesnt matter if you use $HTTP_POST_VARS or $_POST :)

just wanted to get back on this,
if you are using php 4.2.0 or higher, register globals are turned off (which is the default), that means $HTTP_POST_VARS will not work.
Here is some php.net info about it
http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.variables.predefined.php
http://www.php.net/register_globals

[kill.robot.kill]

Go back to using plain inputboxes with instance names of 'name', 'company', etc etc.
or tell me which component you are using, so I can look at how it handles info

[Nick Toye]

Still nothing at all.

This is what I have so far.



// set some variables
//
mailform = "mailform.php";
confirm = "thanks";
action = "send";
error1 = "valid email required";
error2 = "input required";
//
//
//
formData = new LoadVars();
formData.name = name;
formData.company = company;
formData.number = number;
formData.email = email;
formData.from = from;
formData.to = to;
formData.weight = weight;
//
// validate email function
//
function validate(address) {
if (address.length>=7) {
if (address.indexOf("@")>0) {
if ((address.indexOf("@")+2)<address.lastIndexOf(".")) {
if (address.lastIndexOf(".")<(address.length-2)) {
return (true);
}
}
}
}
return (false);
}
//
// clear form
function clearform() {
name.text = "";
company.text = "";
number.text = "";
email.text = "";
from.text = "";
to.text = "";
weight.text = "";
radioGroup.setValue("false");
}
// form check
//
function formcheck() {
if ((((email.text == null)) || (email.text.length<1)) || (email.text == "valid email required")) {
email.text = error1;
action = "";
}
if (!validate(email.text)) {
email.text = error1;
action = "";
}
if ((name.text == null) || (name.text == "")) {
name.text = error2;
action = "";
}
if ((company.text == null) || (company.text == "")) {
company.text = error2;
action = "";
}
if ((number.text == null) || (number.text == "")) {
number.text = error2;
action = "";
}
if ((from.text == null) || (from.text == "")) {
from.text = error2;
action = "";
}
if ((to.text == null) || (to.text == "")) {
to.text = error2;
action = "";
}
if ((weight.text == null) || (weight.text == "")) {
weight.text = error2;
action = "";
}
if ((validate(email.text)) && (email.text != error1) && (name.text != "") && (name.text != error2) && (company.text != "") && (company.text != error2) && (number.text != "") && (number.text != error2) && (from != "") && (from.text != error2) && (to.text != "") && (to.text != error2) && (weight.text != "") && (weight.text != error2)) {
action = "send";
formData.sendAndLoad("mailform.php", formData, "POST");
formData.onLoad = function(success) {
trace("connected");
if (success) {
trace("send_answer = "+this.send_answer);
} else {
trace("no returned data");
}
};
}
}
stop();




<?

$adminaddress = "info@nicktoye.co.uk";
$siteaddress ="http://www.keepcouriers.co.uk";
$sitename = "Keep Couriers";

//No need to change anything below ...
// Gets the date and time from your server
$date = date("m/d/Y H:i:s");

// Gets the IP Address
if ($REMOTE_ADDR == "") $ip = "no ip";
else $ip = getHostByAddr($REMOTE_ADDR);

// Gets the POST Headers - the Flash variables
$action = $_POST['action'] ;
$email = $_POST['email'] ;
$name = $_POST['name'] ;
$company = $_POST['company'] ;
$number = $_POST['number'] ;
$from = $_POST['from'] ;
$to = $_POST['to'] ;
$weight = $_POST['weight'] ;


//Process the form data!
// and send the information collected in the Flash form to Your nominated email address

if ($action == "send") {
//
mail ("$adminaddress","Info Request",
"A visitor at $sitename has left the following information\n
Name: $name
Email: $email\n
The visitor commented:
------------------------------
From: $company
Contact Me On $number
I want a quote for delivering a parcel $from
to $to
at an approximate weight of $weight

Logged Info :
------------------------------
Using: $HTTP_USER_AGENT
Hostname: $ip
IP address: $REMOTE_ADDR
Date/Time: $date","FROM:$adminaddress" ) ;

//This sends a confirmation to your visitor
mail ("$email","Thank You for visiting $sitename",
"Hi $name,\n
Thank you for your interest in $sitename!\n
Cheers,
$sitename
$siteaddress","FROM:$adminaddress") ;

//Confirmation is sent back to the Flash form that the process is complete
$sendresult = "Thank you. You will receive a confirmation email shortly.";
$send_answer = "answer=";
$send_answer .= rawurlencode($sendresult);
echo $send_answer;
} //


?>



Would it be easier if i could just email you my file, i can't post it here because it 450k.

[kill.robot.kill]

*edit.
sent you a PM

[hamza84]

instead of using mailform, try using the whole url format, like

http://www.whatever.com/mailform.php