# How do I send data to a php script from flash?

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**Category:** programming\
**Created:** [July 11, 2004, 1:47pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-do-i-send-data-to-a-php-script-from-flash/57217 "2004-07-11T13:47:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![lowfreq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e7dd6/32.png) [@lowfreq](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/lowfreq)\
**Post date:** [July 11, 2004, 1:47pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-do-i-send-data-to-a-php-script-from-flash/57217/1 "2004-07-11T13:47:38Z")

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Hi all.

I simply want to pass an email address and name to a php script that will write to a text file on the server. I have code already that will do the server-side logic properly.

In my movieclip, I have code that looks like this,

var sendVar = “email.php?email=”+this.email\_field.text;  
getURL(sendVar, “\_blank”, “POST”);

But I do not want it to pop up a new browser window everytime I call a php script to do a “POST”. What command do I use in actionscript so that a browser window won’t pop-up when I call a php script?

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 11, 2004, 5:55pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-do-i-send-data-to-a-php-script-from-flash/57217/2 "2004-07-11T17:55:29Z")

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just get rid of the “\_blank”

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 12, 2004, 2:53pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-do-i-send-data-to-a-php-script-from-flash/57217/3 "2004-07-12T14:53:01Z")

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> [@Digitalosophy](#):
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> just get rid of the “\_blank”

sorry that didn’t work… it just brought up another screen within the same browser window…

anyone else have any ideas? please?

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 12, 2004, 4:01pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-do-i-send-data-to-a-php-script-from-flash/57217/4 "2004-07-12T16:01:51Z")

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do a search for the PHP mail threads - should find plenty of methods there.