# Mail form ( I know, but this one's different )
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/mail-form-i-know-but-this-ones-different/20572
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [May 10, 2003, 3:26pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/mail-form-i-know-but-this-ones-different/20572 "2003-05-10T15:26:14Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Voetsjoeba](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Voetsjoeba)
#### Post date: [May 10, 2003, 3:26pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/mail-form-i-know-but-this-ones-different/20572/1 "2003-05-10T15:26:14Z")
Hi,
I have one of the most asked questions for you guys. How can I create a mail form in Flash ? I know, it’s been asked a million times before but this one’s different. You see the server I’m on has UNIX servers, and don’t support anything. Real crap, not even PHP, AS, CGI, … **nothing**.
So now what do I do to create a mail form without PHP, AS, Perl, CGI, … ? I have no idea at all, all those forms use PHP.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 10, 2003, 5:19pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/mail-form-i-know-but-this-ones-different/20572/2 "2003-05-10T17:19:24Z")
Well then you can’t do it. You need either CGI, ASP, or PHP to be able to create a mail form. Sorry.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 10, 2003, 5:33pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/mail-form-i-know-but-this-ones-different/20572/3 "2003-05-10T17:33:44Z")
I know this probably isn’t much help, but change web host. Most web hosts today should support **[U]some**[/U] kind of server-side scripting.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 10, 2003, 5:36pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/mail-form-i-know-but-this-ones-different/20572/4 "2003-05-10T17:36:34Z")
Yeah I believe [http://www.tripod.lycos.co.uk/](http://www.tripod.lycos.co.uk/) actually supports PHP and it is a free host.
I would recommend switching hosts if you have no support for any server-side language.
njs: Please embed the font in your footer, im getting like an 8 px times new roman… its bad…lol.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 10, 2003, 5:46pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/mail-form-i-know-but-this-ones-different/20572/5 "2003-05-10T17:46:25Z")
Yeah, but I don’t wanna change host :-\ The one I have now supports FTP upload and 50MB space, and those r things I really can’t miss :-\
As for the footer: could you please send me a screenshot, 'cause it’s a graphic, no actual text is in it. I’m about to change it soon anyway. Here’s how it looks like to me
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 10, 2003, 5:47pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/mail-form-i-know-but-this-ones-different/20572/6 "2003-05-10T17:47:55Z")
The font problem was directed to njs12345 (I used njs for short).
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 10, 2003, 5:49pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/mail-form-i-know-but-this-ones-different/20572/7 "2003-05-10T17:49:06Z")
I just checked out [http://www.tripod.lycos.co.uk/](http://www.tripod.lycos.co.uk/)
50MB space
FTP Support
PHP/mySQL Support
You can check out what you get here…
[http://www.tripod.lycos.co.uk/myaccount/freehosting/](http://www.tripod.lycos.co.uk/myaccount/freehosting/)
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 10, 2003, 5:56pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/mail-form-i-know-but-this-ones-different/20572/8 "2003-05-10T17:56:24Z")
About my footer… yeah i noticed that. I’m gonna fix it soon anyway.
Thanks for telling me tho.
Voetsjoaba: I believe there is a way using LoadVars/Loadmovie and System.secury.allowDomain to run scripts on another domain… so you could run the script off lycos… you could try looking into that.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 10, 2003, 6:08pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/mail-form-i-know-but-this-ones-different/20572/9 "2003-05-10T18:08:32Z")
Oooh, I thought the footer comment was ment for me, sry 🙂
By the way, I found a great free host giving 200MB away with PHP support, yaaaay :beam: If I can combine that with what njs told me, it just might work :beam: Now let’s see if it has FTP support :beam: By the way, the host is [http://www.webspace-empire.com](http://www.webspace-empire.com)
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 11, 2003, 12:46am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/mail-form-i-know-but-this-ones-different/20572/10 "2003-05-11T00:46:27Z")
njs: I believe Flash considers loading information off of another server a security risk and does not allow the retreival of data off of another server. I know there is a way around this, but I believe you must have full control over the actual server itself to be able to do it, I could be wrong though.
And there is no such thing as System.security.allowDomain that I know of.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 11, 2003, 12:59am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/mail-form-i-know-but-this-ones-different/20572/11 "2003-05-11T00:59:51Z")
Heres a list of all the system properties Flash can get/do…
[http://www.lostinbeta.com/experimental/systemCapabiltiesMX.html](http://www.lostinbeta.com/experimental/systemCapabiltiesMX.html)
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 11, 2003, 3:01pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/mail-form-i-know-but-this-ones-different/20572/12 "2003-05-11T15:01:38Z")
It’s a method, not a property:[here](http://www.macromedia.com/support/flash/action_scripts/actionscript_dictionary/actionscript_dictionary721.html)
actually, I’m not sure whether that would work.
anyway, [here](http://www.macromedia.com/support/flash/ts/documents/load_xdomain.htm) is a TechNote that documents ways around that problem
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 11, 2003, 3:35pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/mail-form-i-know-but-this-ones-different/20572/13 "2003-05-11T15:35:56Z")
hey lost, =)
as a side note…
there are three properties more in the System.capabilities object: input, serverString and isDebugger. 😉
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 11, 2003, 3:55pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/mail-form-i-know-but-this-ones-different/20572/14 "2003-05-11T15:55:40Z")
njs: Thanks for that link =)
Kax: Those are things I did not know. Do you have links so I can read up on these (if they are in the AS reference at macromedia just tell me and I will check that out later since I have that saved in my favorites so I don’t need a link), I would search myself, but I can’t be on long so I can’t do that now.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 11, 2003, 4:06pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/mail-form-i-know-but-this-ones-different/20572/15 "2003-05-11T16:06:13Z")
nope, you won’t find them in as reference. :-\
i think there’s something about those properties at colin moock’s site, i’m not sure.
if not, run a search on google, surely you’ll find something. 🙂
and if someone can explain it… i guess that person would be senocular. 😛
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 11, 2003, 4:13pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/mail-form-i-know-but-this-ones-different/20572/16 "2003-05-11T16:13:54Z")
Or you 😛 hehehe
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 11, 2003, 4:19pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/mail-form-i-know-but-this-ones-different/20572/17 "2003-05-11T16:19:00Z")
me!? :stunned:
… i can’t even explain why the sky is blue!! 😛
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 11, 2003, 4:25pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/mail-form-i-know-but-this-ones-different/20572/18 "2003-05-11T16:25:30Z")
LOL… yeah uh huh… suuuuure!!! Any reason not to share your knowledge right Kax 😉 😉
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 11, 2003, 4:37pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/mail-form-i-know-but-this-ones-different/20572/19 "2003-05-11T16:37:15Z")
nah… i’d love to, but i just can’t. ☹
i was born to throw snippets of code here and there… 😛
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 11, 2003, 4:38pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/mail-form-i-know-but-this-ones-different/20572/20 "2003-05-11T16:38:48Z")
LOL… ok… you keep telling yourself that 😉
I used to not be able to explain things, and I still have a lot of trouble, but i’m slowly getting better since i’ve been helping out here.
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