AS2 contact form and php - works fine but only sends half of the text in the comments field ???

Question

hi all - i have an AS2 contact form using php to send the info to my email address - it all works fine except this ..... rather than having an empty comments box in the flash movie i had added a whole bunch of feedback questions that the user can comment yes/no to in the comments box (my feedback questions were added into the input text box in cs3 so are there when the user opens the contact page .. i have set the maximum characters to 10000 so no worries that its that that is stopping it all coming through in the email ..... basically when i go to my form online and send it i get it through as an email but with only three quarters of the feedback text in it ...... i have tried a zillion ways a round this, tried other contact forms and php and always end up with the same problem ... any ideas any one ?
this is the AS....
stop();
a =0;
function validate () {
    if (from.length>=7) {
        if (from.indexOf("@")>0) {
            if ((from.indexOf("@")+2)<from.lastIndexOf(".")) {
                if (from.lastIndexOf(".")<(from.length-2)) {
                    a = 1;
                    // email is fine
function formcheck () {
    validate ();       
    trace(a);
    if (fname = "" or telno eq "" or comments eq "" or from eq "") {
        stop();
        error = "You have left blank fields, please fill in all fields, thank you";
    } else {
        emailcheck ();
function emailcheck (){
    if (a != 1){
        stop();
        error = "Email address not valid";
        } else {
        loadVariablesNum("mail.php3", 0, "POST");
        gotoAndStop(2);
..........this is the php
<?php
$adminaddress = "[email protected]";
$sitename = "Flash Site Form Mailer";
mail("$adminaddress","Info Request",
"A customer at $sitename has made the following enquiry\n
First Name: $name
Company Name: $company
Telephone: $telno
Email: $from\n
The visitor commented:
$comments
Logged Info :
Using: $HTTP_USER_AGENT
Hostname: $ip
IP address: $REMOTE_ADDR
Date/Time:  $date","FROM:$adminaddress");
?>
any help much appreciated

Answer 1

i think you should not use $HTTP_USER_AGENT.
and use loadvars instead of loadvariablesnum:
stop();
a =0;
function validate () {
    if (from.length>=7) {
        if (from.indexOf("@")>0) {
            if ((from.indexOf("@")+2)<from.lastIndexOf(".")) {
                if (from.lastIndexOf(".")<(from.length-2)) {
                    a = 1;
                    // email is fine
function formcheck () {
    validate ();       
    trace(a);
    if (fname = "" or telno eq "" or comments eq "" or from eq "") {
        stop();
        error = "You have left blank fields, please fill in all fields, thank you";
    } else {
        emailcheck ();
var sendLV:LoadVars=new LoadVars();
function emailcheck (){
    if (a != 1){
        stop();
        error = "Email address not valid";
        } else {
sendLV.name=fname;
sendLV.telno=telno;
sendLV.company=company;  //assuming company is a variable in your flash
sendLV.comments=comments;
sendLV.send("mail.php3", "POST");
        gotoAndStop(2);
//..........this is the php
<?php
$adminaddress = "[email protected]";
$sitename = "Flash Site Form Mailer";
$from=?;//you need to define this variable
$name=$_POST['name'];
$telno=$_POST['telno'];
$company=$_POST['company'];
$comments=$_POST['comments'];
$body=
"A customer at $sitename has made the following enquiry\n
First Name: $name
Company Name: $company
Telephone: $telno
Email: $from\n
The visitor commented:
$comments";
mail($adminaddress,"Info Request",$body);
?>