How do I send email from Flash 8 with GoDaddy's PHP form?

I am trying to create an email form in Flash 8 that sends mail to my hosting account email address. GoDaddy says that you have to use their coding, but how do I get this to work with Flash 8?

Can anyone give me a hand? Below is a link to GoDaddy's write up on creating a PHP form-mailer.

http://help.godaddy.com/article.php?...10&topic_id=&&

Forget it. That thing is trash. It takes 20 minutes to send mail. Use your own.

This will work on godaddy.

Hey there. Thanks a lot for the advice and for the file. I haven't opened it yet but will do so this evening.

I just switched over to GoDaddy and am trying to make best use of their features. Apparently some are trash, which is a shame for such a big / successful company. Oh well, it's all about the dollar.

Well, godaddy is great for most things. It's just that gdform thing is onesize fits all, and I don't know exactly how it works, but I know from testing on a number of different sites, it takes about 20 minutes for a mail to make it though their system. the one I attached, is almost instant, and works fine on their Unix servers. Haven't tried it on Microsoft.

Thanks for the zip file - everything worked beautifully.

Now, I'm trying to create a "sign up for newsletter" form that simply asked for the user to input an email address and hit send (with a thank you afterwards).

I tried altering your form to do this, but I'm not very good at scripting.

Any suggestions?

Use this one.

Hey there. Question about the email form you sent the other day that is compatable w/GoDaddy. I'm using Flash 8 and can't use that form since it's F6 (gives me a "error opening mailform.php" when I send mail). Also, the user doesn't get a confirmation email and the body of the email comes through in HTML code.

Any way to convert your file to Flash 8 efficiently?

The error is probably because you didn't use the right path to the php form on your server.

Ok, I found the issue. When I modify and upload the form you sent me, without switching over to Flash 8, everything is fine. However, here's my issue.

1) While testing the form in Flash 8, I get an error saying that my email.php can't be found; however, the email still goes through (with html text).

2) When form is uploaded to DreamWeaver and tested in IE, nothing happens at all.

This shows that Flash 8 is definitely the problem. Leaving it published as 6 won't work for me because I need to use anti-alias for readability text.

Any suggestions?

try this one.

Hello,

Thanks much for the F8 zip. Everything works great with your files. However, the "name" of the user sending the email doesn't come through.

How and where do I code the "name" field to correct this?

Open the php file and change where ever it says thename to just name. Better yet, open the fla and change all the name variables, and the var name of the text box itself to thename. name is a keyword in flash and reserved, although, it will work. I like to not use keywords for this.

Changing the Fla. didn't work but changing the php. file worked like a charm.

Another question on the newsletter zip you sent. When I test the Fla., nothing happens when I hit 'submit'. Does the button need to have actions applied to it? Essentially, I'm just looking for the user to submit an email address and for a "thank you" message to pop up.

Any help would be awesome.

Thanks!

No actions on the button. And the message should show up in a text box in the form.

HI, Tried to download and access the fla file from your f8form.zip and it came up with unexpected file format.


Help?

Thx
Shaf

It was made in F8 on a PC. Should work on a Mac too. If it doesn't, I don't know.

That's ok, I used the previous option (movieclipform.zip ) which worked for me just fine. I have a PC and flash mx 2004.
Thank you!

BTw your newsletter fla also comes up with 'unexpected file format'.
I would really like to use that as my client has mentioned using godaddy and newsletters so it would be nice to be prepared!!
Maybe if it was saved in the same way as the movieclipform.fla it might help me?
Would you mind?

thank you
Shaf

See if this works.

I actually just stumbled onto this thread tonight (7/8)...

I, too, am going through the process of setting up my first Flash email form. I downloaded and set up the Flash 6 version of mailform.php that you posted a few replies back...

I configured mailform.php to include my email address, etc. and uploaded it to my remote FTP directory. My .FLA is set to refer to the FTP directory where mailform.php is...

Here's the weird part...

When I test the Flash movie locally (i.e. on my PC), everything works fine... I get the form email (and sender confirmation) almost immediately.

However, when I try actually going to my website and sending mail through the form... I never get the emails.

So with the same .FLA pointing at the same location of mailform.php I'm getting 2 different results: on my PC everything works fine... on my FTP server nothing happens. (I even changed mailform.php's permission to 777 on my FTP just in case... still no dice.)

I'm sure it's something obvious/simple that I'm doing wrong... Any ideas?

Thanks!

Open the php file and change this one line, about 17 or so;

if ($action == "send") {

To;

if ($action != ""){

See if that helps.

Thanks for your quick reply... ;)

I tried the change to the PHP file you indicated, but still no dice...

Having said the above... I should also mention that even after modifying the PHP as you indicated, I'm still seeing the same behavior:

- works when testing the .FLA locally,
- doesn't work through the actual website on the remote FTP server...

When you test the fla, is the php file already up on the server? And it's going through that?

I don't know. Never had the problem.

Yes. The PHP is up on the server.

Also: I'm seeing this on two different hosting services (GoDaddy and Your-Site.com)... so it's not like it's something unique to GoDaddy.

Anybody else have a clue?

Yes. The PHP is up on the server.

Also: I'm seeing this on two different hosting services (GoDaddy and Your-Site.com)... so it's not like it's something unique to GoDaddy.

Anybody else have a clue?

Hey there. I'm having the same problem with GoDaddy. My mailform was working fine both on my local and on my remote hosting, but now it only works when I test through Flash on my local.

Not sure what's going on but I've tried everything under the sun to fix the problem.

I just finished building a project on my server (1&1) and when I transfered it over to my clients server (godaddy) the flash form mailer broke. I found in another thread that godaddy expects you to use their own gdform.php script but no one seems to know how to adapt it for flash.

Godaddy just did some server updates. Well, a month ago or so. But some of our php mailforms quit too. Nothing was wrong with the php files. We fixed it by accident, by deleting the originals off the server, then reuploading the same files off the hard drive, through an FTP program. That seemed to fix the ones that were broke. Only a few of the 25 or so sites we have went down though. Go figure.

I have had a my site hosted with Go Daddy for a long time, my contact forms quit working and I thought my trafic was just down. Had it not been for my learning Flash 8 and trying to get a contact form to work I may have never found the problem. I still cant get the ASP code to work so I had to modify the HTML so the "gdform" will send the info in the correct order.

But to the point...I loaded your f8form and php file (After substituting my email info ect. and it is not working either. Does the EMail address in the Mail form option on godaddy need to be blank for other asp or php files to work?

Any help/advice you could give will be greatly appreciated, at this point I'm sooo confused.

I've never used ASP. And I don't know if the php form will work on a Microsoft server.

OK, Thank you for the quick support

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Originally Posted by Ask The Geezer

try this one.

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Geezer, thanks for the f8form flash mailer. It worked on GoDaddy which is something my old one could not do. The only problem that I'm having is the form check. The only check that works is the email. The other text input boxes are not validated.

You must have changed the names of the text boxes.

No, I only changed the "name" variable in the PHP file, because you had it as "thename".

Thats because they all have some text in them no matter what. The email one looks for @ sign.

I was looking through the actionscript and saw your "if" statements. I thought that if you didn't enter anything into the text boxes other than what was already there it would give an error. I noticed the messages that I listed below and I am wondering what would set them off?

error1 = "Valid email required";
error2 = "Name required";
error3 = "Please give us your comments";
error4 = "Please include a phone number";

That fla has been modified so many times it's hard to tell what it started out as. There is also code in other frames that make sure the text boxes always have something in them.

Got it...thanks for your time!

I found this thread after hours of pulling hair out trying to figure out how to get this form working in my fla file. My fla file is structured where basically each page on the site is a separate movie clip sitting on top of the main timeline. When I execute my file like that the email will not send and results and answer fields do not populate properly. Wehn I take that same code and create a new fla file, place that code on the main time line, as your's is, everything works fine. I think the problem is dealing with the "levels" in flash or the child-parent hiearchy between movie clips, but I don't know enough about that to figure this one out. Any help would be greatly appreciated.