FlashActionscript 3.0 help please - Using GoDaddy's email form gdform.php

tincat

Hi all,

I'm setting up a simple website with a contact form in flash cs5 with actionscript 3. The site is hosted by godaddy, and so the relevant bit of code in my actionscript is as follows (the rest of the as concerns the data and if and else statements):

URLRequest("http://www.mysite.com/gdform.php");
mailAddress.data = allVars;
mailAddress.method = URLRequestMethod.POST;
sendToURL(mailAddress);

The form works, as there are no compiler errors, and the 'thank you!' message appears, but in the output box it says

'Error opening URL 'http://www.mysite.com/gdform.php'

My main question is the gdform.php. On godaddy's control panel, I have set the email that I want webforms to direct to. It doesn't give any other instructions.

Do I have to actually make a gdform.php page?

Sorry if this is a confusing question but hopefully someone will know.

thanks

bingo_bango

The short answer is yes.

In the script, you are sending a request to a page which does not exist. If you haven't compiled gdform.php, how do you expect the script to find it?

The whole point of the URLRequest function is to return a page for the user to see that the message has been sent. I use a php page on one of my sites which is substantially the same format as the rest of the site, but returns the message details so that the user can see what they have just sent. That is what you are trying to do here.

It appears that the script is working correctly (I assume you are getting test messages?) and if that is the case then you could not bother setting up a separate page and just use the /index.html URL for this function. That way a user gets returned to the front page of your site, but will not get any confirmation that the message was successfully sent. It's up to you what you want them to see when they hit submit.