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

[Markp.com]

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

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

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:

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>

When it should read:

Details: Mark, [email protected], 07781545455

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

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

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

Some help would be great! Thanks chaps!

[Musicman]

Hi,

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

Musicman

[Markp.com]

Hi MM, thanks for the reply!

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

Thanks,
Mark

[MyFriendIsATaco]

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.

[Markp.com]

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

I'll try the loadvars

Thanks!

[Musicman]

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