Re: FLASH: Flash4 and forms

[Brian Clifton]

Thanks for your kind help Nigel.


I think I am getting somewhere with understanding this! However I am having no luck. The 

reason why I changed to GET, was that when using POST nothing happens - the browser (N4) 

just sits there. There is no activity on the line and no error message. I was hoping the 

GET method would help me track down the problem. Looks like I have just added to it!


On your suggestion, I have set the properties of the submit button as:

On (Release)

      Get URL ("http://www.omegadm.co.uk/scripts/formh.pl", vars=POST)

      Set Variable: "recipient" = "

brianomegadm [dot] co [dot] uk

"

End On


I have set the properties of Florida as:

On (Roll Over)

      Set Variable: "commentbox" = "Bla bla....."

End On

On (Release)

      Set Variable: "floridabox" = "X"

End On


However I still get nothing. Netscape says 'Connect Host www.omegadm.co.uk contacted. 

Waiting for reply....' but there is none. The script definately works with normal html 

forms (both POST and GET) - we have about 10 sites which use it. It can be tested by 

typing

//www [dot] omegadm [dot] co [dot] uk/scripts/formh [dot] pl?recipient=youremail_address [dot] co [dot] uk">http://www [dot] omegadm [dot] co [dot] uk/scripts/formh [dot] pl?recipient=youremail_address [dot] co [dot] uk

 - 

You'll just get a blank e-mail.


Any further help greatly appreciated.


Best regards, Brian



> Brian,

> 

> First I'll explain what's happening and why it's not working.

> 

> You are using .../formh.pl?recipient=brian... as your target url and you

> are also requesting that Flash send variables using the GET method.

> Further the submit button is on the main timeline.

> 

> The GET method sends data back to the server by appending the url with a

> string that starts with a question mark then includes the data as name

> value pairs. Each pair is separated by & and name and value is separated

> by =. Some characters in the ASCII set are also converted to their hex

> representation.

> 

> Now when the movie finds that you want to send variables using GET it

> takes the URL you gave it and appends the variables to it. This is what's

> causing the error because you've pre appended a variable already so the

> URL is sent with two starting points as indicated by two question marks.

> 

> The correct way to implement what you are trying is to declare

> recipient=brian... as a variable in your Flash movie and not by placing it

> appended to the URL. So you only have to remove that part from the Get URL

> call and add a set variable action.

> 

> If instead of setting send vars with GET you had set it to send vars

> using POST you would never have noticed the error, as in this case the

> recipient var would be sent using GET and all others would be sent using

> POST, this is not however a recommended practice.

> 

> Nigel

> 

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