Flash > PHP email form submitting as HTML rather than plain text?

Hi guys,

Strange problem. I have my flash doc setup to submit an email form as a contact on a page.

The text fields are called:
signupname
signupemail
signupmobile

They are in a movieclip called theform, when the send button is pressed it sends the form to email.php

Code:

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on (release) {
                theform.loadVariables("email.php", "POST");
}

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The PHP file then sends an email to me with the details.

The details are coming through as HTML rather than plain text. Is there a way for me to strip out the html from the text boxes, either in flash or in php?

Currently the emails I get off the form look like:

Code:

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Details: <TEXTFORMAT LEADING=\"2\"><P ALIGN=\"LEFT\"><FONT FACE=\"Arial\" SIZE=\"11\" COLOR=\"#000000\" LETTERSPACING=\"0\" KERNING=\"0\">Mark</FONT></P></TEXTFORMAT>, <TEXTFORMAT LEADING=\"2\"><P ALIGN=\"LEFT\"><FONT FACE=\"Arial\" SIZE=\"11\" COLOR=\"#000000\" LETTERSPACING=\"0\" KERNING=\"0\">[email protected]</FONT></P></TEXTFORMAT>, <TEXTFORMAT LEADING=\"2\"><P ALIGN=\"LEFT\"><FONT FACE=\"Arial\" SIZE=\"11\" COLOR=\"#000000\" LETTERSPACING=\"0\" KERNING=\"0\">07781545455</FONT></P></TEXTFORMAT>

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When it should read:

Code:

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Details: Mark, [email protected], 07781545455

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I've tried setting the text boxes in flash with this code:

Code:

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_root.theform.signupname.text = "";
_root.theform.signupemail.text = "";
_root.theform.signupmobile.text = "";
stop();

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And also using striptags() in php, but nothing seems to work :(

Some help would be great! :) Thanks chaps!

Hi,

switch to loadvars object from loadvariables().
You will have to change from variable names to instance names for the text fields

Musicman

Hi MM, thanks for the reply!

Do you mean loadVariablesNum, as I can't find a loadvars in AS2?

Thanks,
Mark

LoadVars

But that's not going to solve your problem. You have HTML enabled on that text field. Check your property panel for the box with <>. It's probably pressed.

Thanks for the replies chaps, the [<>] button is not checked, thats the first thing I looked at! :D

I'll try the loadvars :lovers:

:D Thanks!

Hi,

to clarify things: in the old days (certainly until flash 7), a text field variable would render html only if html was enabled for the text box. Later (not sure whether it was flash 8 or 9), there were a couple of posts that text variables would alwasy return html.
Now, with loadvars, you no longer use the text field variable but rather assign an instance name to a text field ... and now you can choose between the .text and .htmlText

Musicman