[CS3] Email Form Sends Even if Fields are Empty

[Mark2k]

I'm making a simple PHP based email form that worked fine in Flash MX. I'm exporting as Flash 8 and authoring in Flash CS3.

Right now I have this AS2.0 in the first frame and it works fine:

stop();
function lineAdapt() {
	message_send = message;
	while (msg_count<length(message)) {
		msg_count = msg_count+1;
		if ((substring(message_send, msg_count, 2)) eq "\r") {
			message_send = (substring(message_send, 1, msg_count-2)) + "\n" + (substring(message_send, msg_count+2, (length(message_send))-msg_count+2));
		}
	}
	message = message_send;
	delete msg_count;
	delete message_send;
}

Then for my button I have:

on (release) {
	if (from eq "" || subject eq "" || body eq "") {
		gotoAndPlay(3);
	} else {
		lineAdapt();
		loadVariablesNum("mail.php", 1, "POST");
		gotoAndPlay(5);
	}
}

Naturally my input fields variable names are set to those in the button AS. But whether the fields are full or empty the message sends. The only way to get this to work is if I name each field in both the variables and the instance name, but if I do that each field has this text in it when the form comes up:

_level0.instance8.from
_level0.instance8.subject
_level0.instance8.body

Anyone see what's going wrong? Like I said, this worked in Flash MX just fine.

[gparis]

change eq for ==
eq dates from flash 4
gparis

[Mark2k]

Thanks for the reply. Changed the eq to == but no dice. It still sends with empty fields. Driving me nuts.

[gparis]

you'll need to declare them as empty to start with:

var from:String = "";
var subject:String = "";

etc.

then you can see if they are as they were declared.

gparis

[Mark2k]

Where would I insert those declarations?

[Mark2k]

Ok, I stuck those lines in a separate frame at the beginning of my timeline and it worked like a charm! Thanks for the help!

[gparis]

Good for you!

The 2 main differences between player 6 (MX) and above are:
- all variables must be declared before use
- as is case sensitive: myVar and myvar are 2 different variables.

gparis