Mail form via flash?

ironman · 7 Apr 2006 at 03:51

Has anyone got a working model of a feedback/mail form that can be sent to an email address from a flash form instead of the conventional html form?

Thanks

unknowndomain · 7 Apr 2006 at 12:16

The best way is to send the data to a php/asp script and have that email it from flash. I dont know much about flash but i assume either you do a form submision sum how or getUrl and create a url like this... http://my.domain.com/script.php?to=$to&from=$from&subject=$subject&$message=$message

Then when u mail it flash should put the $var's in if u have set them.

ironman · 7 Apr 2006 at 16:14

Thankyou I have it working great now, much easier to use php. But I just have one addon that I need, at the moment the script looks like this

Code:

<?php
$sendTo = "[email protected]";
$subject = "xxxxxx";

$headers = "From: " . $_POST["Name"];
$headers .= "<" . $_POST["Email"] . ">\r\n";
$headers .= "Reply-To: " . $_POST["Email"] . "\r\n";
$headers .= "Return-Path: " . $_POST["Email"];
$message = $_POST["Phone"];


mail($sendTo, $subject, $message, $headers);
?>

The main message of the email being the phone number, but I have an extra variable called University that I wish to appear in the body of the email too, how do I modify the code to do this? (I'm not really fluent in php

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unknowndomain · 7 Apr 2006 at 16:18

gurdas said:
Thankyou I have it working great now, much easier to use php. But I just have one addon that I need, at the moment the script looks like this

Code:

<?php $sendTo = "[email protected]"; $subject = "xxxxxx"; $headers = "From: " . $_POST["Name"]; $headers .= "<" . $_POST["Email"] . ">\r\n"; $headers .= "Reply-To: " . $_POST["Email"] . "\r\n"; $headers .= "Return-Path: " . $_POST["Email"]; $message = $_POST["Phone"]; mail($sendTo, $subject, $message, $headers); ?>

The main message of the email being the phone number, but I have an extra variable called University that I wish to appear in the body of the email too, how do I modify the code to do this? (I'm not really fluent in php)

Hows this???

Code:

<?php
$sendTo = "[email protected]";
$subject = "xxxxxx";

$headers = "From: " . $_POST["Name"];
$headers .= "<" . $_POST["Email"] . ">\r\n";
$headers .= "Reply-To: " . $_POST["Email"] . "\r\n";
$headers .= "Return-Path: " . $_POST["Email"];
$message =  . "Phone: " . $_POST["Phone"] . "\nUniversity: " . $_POST["University"];


mail($sendTo, $subject, $message, $headers);
?>

Is that more like what you want?

ironman · 7 Apr 2006 at 16:41

Something like that, but that particular script isn't sending me an email.

unknowndomain · 7 Apr 2006 at 16:43

Code:

<?php
$sendTo = "[email protected]";
$subject = "xxxxxx";

$headers = "From: " . $_POST["Name"];
$headers .= "<" . $_POST["Email"] . ">\r\n";
$headers .= "Reply-To: " . $_POST["Email"] . "\r\n";
$headers .= "Return-Path: " . $_POST["Email"];
$message = "Phone: " . $_POST["Phone"] . " University: " . $_POST["University"];


mail($sendTo, $subject, $message, $headers);
?>

Does this work?

ironman · 7 Apr 2006 at 17:15

Perfect. Much appreciated mate

robmiller · 7 Apr 2006 at 18:22

Holy insecure spam machine, Batman!

ironman · 8 Apr 2006 at 00:35

How can one make it more secure?

robmiller · 8 Apr 2006 at 01:49

Sanitise user input, set a time limit, and stop the user from injecting whatever headers they want.