# URLVariables - Passing an Email Address

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/urlvariables-passing-an-email-address/301394>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [December 8, 2009, 8:48pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/urlvariables-passing-an-email-address/301394 "2009-12-08T20:48:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![e\_owen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/df788c/32.png) [@e\_owen](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/e_owen)\
**Post date:** [December 8, 2009, 8:48pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/urlvariables-passing-an-email-address/301394/1 "2009-12-08T20:48:15Z")

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Hello,  
I am having trouble creating an email form in Flash. The PHP is working fine and the email sends if I query the php in a browser but when I pass the variables from Flash the email address that is passed gets \*\*\*\*ed up.

For example:  
the text I enter in the text field: [bobloblaw@football.com](mailto:bobloblaw@football.com)  
what is sent to php: bobloblaw%40football%2Ecom

I realise this is probably to do with urlencoding and I have tried escape() on the strings but this ddint seem to help. Am I missing something or is there another way to do this.

Help greatly appreciated.