# Sending a email through FlashMX **URL:** \ **Category:** flash\ **Created:** [July 9, 2003, 6:29pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/sending-a-email-through-flashmx/25130 "2003-07-09T18:29:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![cheddar](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/cheddar/32/267_2.png) [@cheddar](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/cheddar)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2003, 6:29pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/sending-a-email-through-flashmx/25130/1 "2003-07-09T18:29:27Z")
Does anyone have a decent tutorial on creating a simple email form in FlashMX. My hosting uses a cgiscript for email can I use this with FlashMX. I’d rather not use the ‘mailto’ command as I hate it. Can anyone help me out? Cheddar P.S. My first ever flash site is nearing completition i’m very excited 🙂 ---
**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 9, 2003, 6:34pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/sending-a-email-through-flashmx/25130/2 "2003-07-09T18:34:47Z")
I’ve never used cgi before. do a search on forms, you get plenty of results. jubba has a great one using php ---
**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 9, 2003, 6:55pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/sending-a-email-through-flashmx/25130/3 "2003-07-09T18:55:45Z")
Thanks for the help (again!). I did do a quick search for ‘email’ but I didnt find anything. I will have a look at forms. I don’t know much about CGI either. All I have to do if I want to send a email using HTML Forms is post the form to the CGI program and it does the rest. ---
**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 9, 2003, 7:00pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/sending-a-email-through-flashmx/25130/4 "2003-07-09T19:00:25Z")
well what happens is html sends variables to the CGI page. Agian, I don’t know any cgi, but the same should apply for Flash. As long as the variables match all you need to do is send the FLash vars to the CGI page. [AS] submit.onRelease = function(){ getURL(“email.cgi”,“0”,“post”); } [/AS] something like that would work this will get u started making a form [http://www.webthang.co.uk/tuts/tuts\_fmx/gfmx3/gfmx3\_1.asp](http://www.webthang.co.uk/tuts/tuts_fmx/gfmx3/gfmx3_1.asp) ---
**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 9, 2003, 7:05pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/sending-a-email-through-flashmx/25130/5 "2003-07-09T19:05:49Z")
After reading this, I to became curious. Here is a link I found that uses a PERL script. Unfortunately it is referring to Flash 5, so I don’t know if there are any conflicts :: [http://www.actionscript-toolbox.com/sampleemail.php](http://www.actionscript-toolbox.com/sampleemail.php) I don’t know PERL I use ASP to send emails using CDONTS. Here is a site that talks about using ASP with Flash :: [http://www.asp101.com/articles/flash/index.asp](http://www.asp101.com/articles/flash/index.asp) ---
**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 9, 2003, 8:26pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/sending-a-email-through-flashmx/25130/6 "2003-07-09T20:26:39Z")
Thanks to everyone who replied. Got it working now. ---
**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 9, 2003, 9:14pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/sending-a-email-through-flashmx/25130/7 "2003-07-09T21:14:18Z")
what tutorial did you use…can you share? ---
**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 9, 2003, 9:21pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/sending-a-email-through-flashmx/25130/8 "2003-07-09T21:21:21Z")
great! ---
**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 10, 2003, 8:00am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/sending-a-email-through-flashmx/25130/9 "2003-07-10T08:00:21Z")
> \*Originally posted by Alucard\_X \* > \*\*what tutorial did you use…can you share? \*\* [http://www.sephiroth.it/tutorials/flashPHP/email/page001.php](http://www.sephiroth.it/tutorials/flashPHP/email/page001.php) I ended up using PHP rather than CGI HTH. ---
**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 10, 2003, 1:17pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/sending-a-email-through-flashmx/25130/10 "2003-07-10T13:17:42Z")
:nerd: Just so everyone knows, PHP is CGI. CGI stands for Common Gateway Interface, and there are many languages that fall under this category. ie Perl, Python, PHP, etc. :geek: