[RESOLVED] [F8] send form through a 3rd party mail service

Good afternoon all. I am trying to send the contents of a Flash form to iContact, which is a 3rd party email management service. My form works fine when I write my own PHP script, but I can't get it to show up in iContact. There are fixed variables that I have to send onSubmit that tell iContact where to post, but one variable caught my eye. It is:

specialid:26395 = "ACQQ";

Because of the colon after "specialid", I can't send this as a variable in Flash. Has anyone tried to send a Flash form through a 3rd party service and have any insight? Or does anyone know how to get that variable with the colon to post onSubmit?

I was thinking worst case scenario I could pass everything into my own php script, then pass it into iContact from there, since it works in html. But I have never written a pass through script.

Any ideas would be helpful. My onSubmit code is below. Maybe I am missing something? Thanks in advance for your help.

Code:

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on (release) {
  if (!email.length || email.indexOf("@") == undefined || email.indexOf(".") == -1) {
      EmailStatus = "Please enter a valid E-mail address";
 }
  else {
        //copying the entered variables into the variable names required by iContact
        fields_name = name;
        fields_country = country;
        fields_postcode = postcode;
        fields_email = email;
        fields_emailformat = emailformat;
        listid = 26390;    // below are the fixed variables required by iContact to recognize the account
        specialid:26390 = "ACQQ"; //Flash won't let me pass this one
        clientid = 202700;
        formid = 2300;
        reallistid = 1;
        doubleopt = 1;
        sc_project=3838100;
        loadVariables ("http://app.icontact.com/icp/signup.php", this, "POST");
        EmailStatus = "Sending... Please wait";
 }
}

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PHP Code:

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this["specialid:26390"] = "ACQQ"; 


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Thank you for the reply Moagrius. This worked for passing the variable out of Flash! iContact still won't recognize my script though. But at least that variable works. If anybody sees an error with my script, please let me know. Otherwise I will try to solve it directly with iContact.

try loadVars

PHP Code:

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on (release) {
   if (!email.length || email.indexOf("@") == undefined || email.indexOf(".") == -1) {
      EmailStatus = "Please enter a valid E-mail address";
 }
   else {
        //copying the entered variables into the variable names required by iContact
var loader = new LoadVars();
    loader.fields_name = name; 
    loader.fields_country = country;
    loader.fields_postcode = postcode;
    loader.fields_email = email;
    loader.fields_emailformat = emailformat;
    loader.listid = 26390;     // below are the fixed variables required by iContact to recognize the account
        loader["specialid:26390"] = "ACQQ"; //Flash won't let me pass this one
    loader.clientid = 202700;
    loader.formid = 2300;
    loader.reallistid = 1;
    loader.doubleopt = 1;
    loader.sc_project=3838100; 
    loader.sendAndLoad ("http://app.icontact.com/icp/signup.php", loader, "POST");
    EmailStatus = "Sending... Please wait";
 }
} 


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That worked!!!!!

Moagrius, thank you VERY much for taking the time to modify my code. I will remember this for future Flash forms. I always appreciate the great help I get on this forum.

BTW, how do I show this thread as resolved?

yw, and: at the top of the thread, click "THREAD TOOLS" > "MARK THREAD AS RESOLVED"

Perfect, thanks!