I take it you’re hosting with a free hosting company like Geocities or something that don’t support PHP!?
Simple answer is no. You need to use PHP or ASP or some other similar technology.
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Yes. You can send eMails without using server side technology. see this link.
[http://www.webthang.co.uk/tuts/tuts\_fmx/gfmx3/gfmx3\_1.asp](http://www.webthang.co.uk/tuts/tuts_fmx/gfmx3/gfmx3_1.asp)
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> [@nishanthe](#):
>
> Yes. You can send eMails without using server side technology. see this link.
> [http://www.webthang.co.uk/tuts/tuts\_fmx/gfmx3/gfmx3\_1.asp](http://www.webthang.co.uk/tuts/tuts_fmx/gfmx3/gfmx3_1.asp)
Sorry, that isn’t the kind of solution i’m looking for.
This is for a childrens website, and I don’t know if they will have any mail programs set up.
This is the site at the moment: [www.stickytv.co.nz It is a childrens website for a TV show on every weekday, and comparing it to this: [URL=http://www.squirt.tv]squirt.tv](http://www.stickytv.co.nz) which from what i can gather, was made by someone who uses [kirupa.com](http://kirupa.com), and it is wonderful, I would be ecstatic if I could make one ot this quality.
Anyway, I am just a 15 year old, bored in the holidays, in NZ, and I decided it was pathetic, so i e-mailed the admin, and now I am redoing it.
If you have a look at the source of their Contact Us! page, you will see it uses a .pl extension to send an email from the form. Is it possible to use this to send from flash?
And Scotty, don’t laugh, i’m just a newbie at web design…
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> If you have a look at the source of their Contact Us! page, you will see it uses a .pl extension to send an email from the form. Is it possible to use this to send from flash?
Yes you can interface flash with a PERL script, I have done it and it is quite easy. This is still a server side technology though using the CGI standard. Why do you not want to use a server side technology?
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Oops, read your question wrong 🙂
I want to do it without server side because the server I am using doesn’t support it.
Can someone help me with using the .pl script on that server? I need to know how to integrate it with flash.
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Here is a PERL (.pl) script I have used in place of PHP, copy and paste it into a plain text file and save as mail.pl, upload it to the server into your cgi-bin directory and be sure it is CHMODed to 755:
```auto
#!/usr/bin/perl
require "subparseform.lib";
&Parse_Form;
$Email = $formdata{'Email'};
$FirstName = $formdata{'FirstName'};
$ToComments = $formdata{'ToComments'};
$ToEmail = "aknatn411\@comcast.net";
$ToSubject = "Response from Smorgy Porf";
$EmailBody = "Sent By: $FirstName
Senders Email: $Email
Message Sent:
$ToComments
";
$EmailFooter = "
This message was sent by: $FirstName. If you feel that you
recieved this e-mail by accident please contact us at www.smorgyporf.com";
$Message = $EmailBody.$EmailFooter;
open (MAIL, "|/usr/sbin/sendmail -t") || &ErrorMessage;
print MAIL "To: $ToEmail
From: $Email
";
print MAIL "Subject: $ToSubject
";
print MAIL "$Message
";
close (MAIL);
print "Content-type: text/html
";
print "_root.contact.contact_window.text.EmailStatus=Complete - Your communication has been sent";
sub ErrorMessage {
print "Content-type: text/html
";
print "_root.contact.contact_window.text.EmailStatus=Failed Please email info@smorgyporf.com";
exit; }
```
And here is the Action script, attach it to your submit button:
```auto
on (release) {
if (!Email.length || Email.indexOf("@") == -1 || Email.indexOf(".") == -1) {
EmailStatus = "Enter valid email";
}
else if (!FirstName.length) {
EmailStatus = "Enter Name";
}
else if (!ToComments.length) {
EmailStatus = "Please fill comments";
}
else {
loadVariablesNum ("http://www.smorgyporf.com/cgi-bin/mail.pl", "0", "Post");
EmailStatus = "Sending... Please be patient...";
}
}
```
If you can’t figure out how to do the variables let me know and I’ll give you more instructions.
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Thanks for all that, but I can’t use that, the question with the .pl script was could I use the one which was already there and being used, nd from what I can work out, these are the needed variables:
[http://home.xtra.co.nz/cgi-bin/FormMail.pl](http://home.xtra.co.nz/cgi-bin/FormMail.pl)
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