Is it possible...

[boney-man]

Is it possible to send the contents of a variable to an email address? Let's say you have the variable 'name', and you want to email its contents to, i dunno, [e-mail]. People can type in the variable 'name', and when they hit a button, it places the value of 'name' in an email to [e-mail] .

Is this possible? If so, please give me the code. I'm an amateur programmer.

[Johnny]

Good question! I think it is possible too, though I'm not sure of the syntax. I'll bump this for you, because I'd like to know too.

[gorman2001]

u can do this with PHP.

but u can also do it it a regular html "post form" code, but it is really not effective as the PHP sendmail() method.

[cook]

You can do it with pretty much any server side language.

Example:

AS:

on(release){
vars = new LoadVars();
vars.mailVar = someVarName;
vars.send("mailvar.php");
}

I think that's how the send method works in LoadVars(), but I don't quite remember.

PHP: mailvar.php

<?

if(!empty($_POST['mailVar'])){
mail("[e-mail]", "My variable", $_POST['mailVar']);
}

?>

This extremely simple and untested, but you should get the just of it.

[cook]

Fuck, I new I'd bungle something up.

Change:
vars.send("mailvar.php");

To:
vars.send("mailvar.php", "POST");

[boney-man]

At 12/19/05 10:40 PM, -cook- wrote:

PHP: mailvar.php

Yeah, but where do you put the PHP code? Flash certainly doesn't use it.

[boney-man]

I'm a flash programmer, not PHP. I really should learn it though. So where do put the code? I don't have a server to send it to....

[cook]

You put it in a file, and rename it to PHP. Be sure your host allows PHP or it won't work.

If you need PHP, you could always buy some server space from me. =)

[boney-man]

Do you think it would work if I put this AS?

on(release){
getURL("mailto:[e-mail]?subject=
"+variableOne+"&body="+anotherVar, "_blank");
}

it might....