# Using text fields

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/using-text-fields/1109>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [August 8, 2002, 6:57pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/using-text-fields/1109 "2002-08-08T18:57:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![tsw](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/5fc32e/32.png) [@tsw](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/tsw)\
**Post date:** [August 8, 2002, 6:57pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/using-text-fields/1109/1 "2002-08-08T18:57:11Z")

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Doesn’t anyone know how to get information from a text field and email it to someone?

How do you guys usually use text fields?

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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:** [August 8, 2002, 9:23pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/using-text-fields/1109/2 "2002-08-08T21:23:38Z")

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You would have to use Flash combined with PHP or CGI to do that. I have never done it before, but there are tutorials all over the place to do it.

[http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/components.asp](http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/components.asp)

That link has a tutorial for creating forms in Flash MX using components.