# Email Question
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/email-question/17997
**Category:** programming
**Created:** [April 11, 2003, 9:16pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/email-question/17997 "2003-04-11T21:16:54Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@Alex](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Alex)
#### Post date: [April 11, 2003, 9:16pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/email-question/17997/1 "2003-04-11T21:16:54Z")
I am having a great deal of problems with creating a mail form. I have managed to find this…
[http://www.flashkit.com/movies/Basics/Interactivity/E-mail\_f-Gareth\_D-6166/index.php](http://www.flashkit.com/movies/Basics/Interactivity/E-mail_f-Gareth_D-6166/index.php)
and it looks like something that i want to use for my site. i am really confused on how to make it work. and where to do the editing. How would i make it work and what do i need to make it work.
Thanks for your time
:-\
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 11, 2003, 9:22pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/email-question/17997/2 "2003-04-11T21:22:48Z")
read these threads:
this one explains the mail() PHP function : [http://www.kirupaforum.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=17313](http://www.kirupaforum.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=17313)
this one talks about sending varialbes from Flash to PHP to e-mail: [http://www.kirupaforum.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=17604](http://www.kirupaforum.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=17604)
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 11, 2003, 9:36pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/email-question/17997/3 "2003-04-11T21:36:59Z")
for some reason all of that stuff confuses me. and i can never get it to work out correctly. When i dowloaded the file from flash kit, it comes with an extra file, called sendmail.php. i am not sure what the use of this is, im really searously confused. Mabye this isnt for me then. ☹
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 11, 2003, 9:47pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/email-question/17997/4 "2003-04-11T21:47:08Z")
sendmail.php is would have the actualy php script that mails the variables to your inbox… that needs to be placed on your server, and when you call it through actionscript, it loads the file, sends the variables to it, and php handles them and mails them. =)
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 11, 2003, 10:09pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/email-question/17997/5 "2003-04-11T22:09:33Z")
i hate these things. they are so confusing, or either that im stupid. 🙂
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 11, 2003, 10:21pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/email-question/17997/6 "2003-04-11T22:21:18Z")
i think it’s clear alex, you are stupid.
[size=1]you know im kidding :P[/size]
they arent really confusing… or well atleast compared to other AS/PHP combination… a mailer form should be easy 🙂
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 11, 2003, 11:02pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/email-question/17997/7 "2003-04-11T23:02:19Z")
you need to take the time to read and learn and understand. No one is going to spoon-feed you the information. The closest you will get is tutorials and posts like the ones I showed you.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 11, 2003, 11:07pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/email-question/17997/8 "2003-04-11T23:07:59Z")
i know, im going to go back later when i have time to really read it. Thanks for your responces:)