[RESOLVED] new to PHP. contact form question.

[compjock]

I have a simple 3 field contact form written in AS3. I have verified it to the point where I send my data to PHP and it all works as intended.

However, because of my ignorance of PHP, I am lost when it comes to actually getting Flash and PHP to talk to 1 another. I have been working on this for a day and a 1/2 now and about to pull my hair out!

My flash collects and stores 3 variables (contactName, contactEmail, contactComments) and then passes them to PHP. I would then like PHP to send an email to a predetermined address and confirm the email was sent. Simple enough, right?

The code is pieced together from other examples from Flashkit and other sites.

here is my relevant AS3 code:

sidenote: PHP version is 5.2.2

var contactVariables:URLVariables = new URLVariables();
var phpSend:URLRequest=new URLRequest('contact.php');
var phpLoader:URLLoader=new URLLoader();
phpSend.method=URLRequestMethod.POST;
phpSend.data=contactVariables;


function sendMail():void {
             contactVariables.contactName=contactName;
    contactVariables.contactEmail=contactEmail;
    contactVariables.contactComments=contactComments;
    phpLoader.load(phpSend)    
} 

<?PHP 
$to="[email protected]";
$subject="ABC Company Web Contact Form"

//pass variables

$name=$_POST['contactName'];
$email=$_POST['contactEmail'];
$comments=$_POST['contactComments'];

if(mail($to, $subject, $comments, "Sender: $name)){

print('&mail=1'); //success

} else {

print('&mail=0'); //failure

}

?PHP>

[blazes816]

Well, you have a syntax error which could be part of your problem. I don't actually get what your problem is however.

if(mail($to, $subject, $comments, "Sender: $name)){ 

Should be:

if(mail($to, $subject, $comments, "Sender: $name")){ 

Also:

?PHP> 

Should be:

?> 

[compjock]

thanks for the response. I've made the 2 corrections per your post. (simple mistake leaving out the close quotes - can't believe I did that.) However, mail is still not being sent.

That is my problem. It seems everything is right, but nothing is sent. Also, I don't know if i have my AS3 setup right to receive a response back from php the email was sent successfully or failed.

any help is much appreciated.


corrected PHP code.

<?PHP 
$to="[email protected]";
$subject="ABC Company Web Contact Form"

//pass variables

$name=$_POST['contactName'];
$email=$_POST['contactEmail'];
$comments=$_POST['contactComments'];

if(mail($to, $subject, $comments, "Sender: $name")){

print('&mail=1'); //success

} else {

print('&mail=0'); //failure

}

?>

[compjock]

I found a script that worked.

[Musicman]

Hi,

just a comment on mail() - on unix-style webserver mail is considered successful if
- mailing from php has not been disabled by the admin
- there is no severe error in the server config and
- there is enough space on the server's hard disk to queue the mail for sending

So testing success of mail() is not really helpful

Musicman