# Flash variables help!

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-variables-help/174975>\
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**Created:** [January 10, 2006, 7:02pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-variables-help/174975 "2006-01-10T19:02:35Z")\
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**Author:** ![headso](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/df788c/32.png) [@headso](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/headso)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2006, 7:02pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-variables-help/174975/1 "2006-01-10T19:02:35Z")

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Guys, I have a flash movie that has an option to “send to a friend” there is an input box with a variable called “email”.

everything works fine except when you type in your email address and click send not only does it send the email it also sends a bunch of format information for the input box, below is what the php script is reciving as the “email” variable.

\<TEXTFORMAT LEADING=“2”\>\<P ALIGN=“LEFT”\>\<FONT FACE="\_sans" SIZE=“12” COLOR="#000000" LETTERSPACING=“0” KERNING=“0”\>[myemail@test.com](mailto:myemail@test.com)\</FONT\>\</P\>\</TEXTFORMAT\>

why is it sending all that crap along with the inputed text?