contact form passing variables

[xxlfm]

Hi, I have a contact form, which is a mc (called formMC), and inside I have another mc(called sendMC) to use as the submit button, inside sendMC I have the hit button, which has the code:


on (rollOver) {
gotoAndPlay("s1");
}
on (releaseOutside, rollOut) {
gotoAndPlay("s2");
}
on (release) {
if (_root.contact_form.t2 eq "" or _root.contact_form.t4 eq "" or _root.contact_form.t5 eq "") {
stop ();
} else {
loadVariablesNum ("submit.php", 0, "POST");
//trace ("test");
_root.contact_form.gotoAndStop(2);
}
}


and submit.php is simple (I defined the var as name, message, etc):

$to = "webmaster@1000knots.net";
$msg = "$name\n\n";
$msg .= "$message\n\n";

mail($to, $subject, $msg);

But my problem is that: I can get email, but no POST variables (name. message, etc).

If I just use a button inside formMC, that works, but I have the button inside another MC, is anything I missed?

Thanks for the help.

PS: just thought I should call the parent loadVariablesNum, I am pretty new to actionscript, how can I do that?

Also I am confused about the level (0) parameter in the loadVariablesNum function, can someone educate me on that?

[xxlfm]

This should be a easy fix, but I dont know how to get the vars form the parent level, then I did something stupid like the following:



on (release) {
if (_root.contact_form.t2 eq "" or _root.contact_form.t4 eq "" or _root.contact_form.t5 eq "") {
stop ();
} else {
name = _root.contact_form.t2.text;
message = _root.contact_form.t4.text;
loadVariablesNum ("submit.php?t2_2=" + name + "&t4_2=" + message, 0, "GET");
//trace ("test");
_root.contact_form.gotoAndStop(2);
}
}


It's working, I captured the vars from the parent and use GET, but there must be the way to just use POST to get all the vars.

Here is submit.php:


$to = "webmaster@1000knots.net";
$subject = "Web Contact form";
$headers="From: webmaster<webmaster@1000knots.net>\r\n";
$headers.='Content-type: text/html';
$msg = "$t2_2\n\n";
$msg .= "$t4_2\n\n";

mail($to, $subject, $msg, $headers);


I will Google and if anyone knows, please help me.

Thanks.

[Medyman]

I'm a little confused about your problem (didn't really read very carefully).

But one thing that I would like to advise you about:
NEVER USE _root!

It's a horrible practice. As you get more and more advanced, you'll realize why. Rather use _parent.

In AS 3.0 _root is deprecated anyway so might as well get used to not knowing it.

_parent works as such.

If you are calling a root element from inside a MC (i.e. following heirarchy: root MC >> MC2) you would use this._parent to refer to root MC.

root MC >> MC2 >> MC3:
this._parent = MC2
this._parent._parent = root MC

and so forth!

[xxlfm]

thanks for your great tips! Medyman!

I found a great tutorial at http://www.nunomira.com/tutorials/loading_variables.php.

but I am still confused with the level thing:

so _level0 is root? Can you give me some example?

Thanks again!

Also I update my code as th efollwoing, it's cool!



on (release) {
if (_parent.t2 eq "" or _parent.t4 eq "" or _parent.t5 eq "") {
stop ();
} else {
varSender = new LoadVars();
// create the object to get all the form inputs
varSender.t2_2 = _parent.t2.text;
varSender.t4_2 = _parent.t4.text;
varSender.t5_2 = _parent.t5.text;
varSender.send("http://www.ac.net/rvh/submit.php", "_blank", "POST");
//loadVariablesNum ("http://ac.net/rvh/submit.php?t2_2=" + name + "&t4_2=" + message, 0, "GET");
//trace ("test");
_parent.gotoAndStop(2);
}

[Medyman]

yes, level0 is the root...

so if you have a movieclip called MC1 you could call it

_root.MC1 (a no no!) or _level0.MC1

they both refer to the same thing but the level 0 is more definite.

It all depends on the complexity of the flash site you're constructing. The most effective flash sites won't just be one single .swf.

The simplest circumstance of this will be having a website with 5 pages and each page is an external .swf that will be loaded on runtime. If someone goes to your site for a specific reason, there really is no point in loading the entire site if the user will never visit, right?

Anyway, so in these external .swfs you might have things in it's root timeline that you're calling with _root. This works when you test the file itself. But when you load it into the larger site .swf, it doesn't. Why? Because _root now refers to _level 0 of the entire movie which would be the larger site .swf.

So to keep track of where you are in the movie, use _parent.

If you're not sure where you are, simple use this code:

trace(this) ...the output will declare the depth of the MC