It's a forms question!

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My next goal in learning flash mx is being able to make one of those input email forms - you know with name, company, message box etc. My problem is that I don’t know where to start. I have tried searching for tutorials but found nothing of any use. I need the following advice please:

  1. what do I need in terms of software other than flash itself? Do I need some database software?

  2. What will I need to have on my server to be able to achieve this? Will I have to pay extra or do most packages come with this sort of services.

  3. I realise that some actionscript will be involved but will any other scripts be used - I’ve heard that PHP is used although I don’t know anything about it.

If you’ve ever made one, how did you learn? Can you help me out here as it all seems very vague and I don’t know where to turn.

Thank you.

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I’m surprised that you weren’t able to find anything on this subject because it’s asked very often. I guess you’re searching for the wrong stuff.

Before you go about building a form, you must make sure that your hosting plan allows the use of a serverside script like PHP or ASP. You’ll need either of those for your form to work, it sends the information that is entered into your form to your email.

Here’s a tutorial on it:
http://www.actionscript.org/tutorials/intermediate/php_send_mail/index.shtml

And here’s a list of threads on the same subject:
http://www.kirupaforum.com/forums/search.php?s=&action=showresults&searchid=193137&sortby=&sortorder=