26182Creating a Mail Form with PHP and Flash by Georgehttp://codewalkers.com/tutorials.php?show=10This tutorial is written for Flash 5 and obviously your server must support PHP Download the source file and open it and have a study it as we go through this tutorial, it will make it easier to understand.PHP > Tips and Tutorials > Flash and PHPOct 15, 2006
With Flash MX and the Flash 6 plug-in, we finally have unicode support in Flash. This makes it a viable tool to display text in languages other than English, including all Euro-languages with accents, Middle Eastern right-to-left scripts and many Asian Languages like Japanese, Chinese, Korean etc. It also helps to make dynamic text, with HTML, in Flash a more appealing visual aid to our designs since we can use bullets, arrows and symbols more creatively. Hence Unicode opens up a new door for graphic design with Type as well.
There are more than a few pitfalls to this process though. It is worth mentioning a few basic concepts about Unicode and document encoding for HTML in general. This is by no means a comprehensive discussion on the issue, but rather a quick crash course on language encoding and how browsers handle language issues.
Now we are going to add a few things to our basic form. Whereas before our contact form contained just 4 fields (name, subject, message and email) I have now added a drop down menu and checkboxes.
This tutorial is written for Flash 5 and obviously your server must support PHP Download the source file and open it and have a study it as we go through this tutorial, it will make it easier to understand.
For those of you not familiar with Ming, I highly recommend that you check it out. Ming is a swf output module available for various server-side languages, though it is most popularly used with PHP. You can download Ming from here. Ming can serve as a complete Flash replacement tool and you can create as many swfs as you like without ever touching Flash! It is really a server-side Flash program. To delve into more Ming, you must check out these documents
Have you got a website? Flash Attach contact forms are an awesome add-on for your website. Click on the pictures, hit attach file and see the file right on the page (if it is a graphic), enter (any) information, and click "send" to see how they work. These PHP and Flash based add-ons work without programming knowledge and include step by step instructions.
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