Help needed getting contacts page to work

Question

Hi there,
I’m new to flash programming, so please bear with me.
I bought a flash template to customise to use for our wedding
website. I’ve got pretty much most of it done, all except the
contacts page, which I can’t get to work.
I think I’ve narrowed the problem down to the feed into
send_mail.php script, but any suggestions would be greatly
appreciated (before my future wife kills me for wasting so much
time on this when we could have got a simple html website –
but where would be the fun in that?!)
I've attached the Action script behind the contacts page
(please excuse the Spanish – for some reason the scripts are
littered with it – for those who need to know, boton =
button, listo = ready, nombre = name, cuadro = picture).
From what I can gather, the first bit deals with what happens
when you click on the buttons (name and email), the second bit is
for error checking what’s entered, such as whether the email
address has a @ or .com. The last bit is to feed the results into a
php file, which should forward the contents of the contacts page to
me.
Here’s my send_mail.php file
<?php
$nombre=$_POST['name'];
$email=$_POST['email'];
$phone=$_POST['company'];
$comentarios=$_POST['msg'];
$to="[email protected]";
$subject="From flash form";
$headers="From: \"$name\" <$email>";
$message = "Company: $company\n\n";
$message .= $msg;
mail($to,$subject,$message,$headers);
?>
And I've put this php file in the same directory of my
website as all the other swf and fla files – is that correct?
Should this work? Or have I made a mistake anywhere?
Many thanks
DM

Answer 1

Okay is the php script you have included here, THE actual
script that is on your website? (unchanged in it's contents)
Because where it says:
$to="[email protected]";
You have to change that to your email, or the email you want
the form contents to send to.
-Yes you will put the .php file in the same directory as the
.swf file-
Also you need to check that the variable and instance names
in the flash file match the names in the .php file.
Example:
"mail.nombre = nombre.text;
mail.email = email.text;
mail.phone = phone.text;
mail.comentarios = comentarios.text;
mail.Submit = true;"
-This is what you have provided for the form, which does not
match the .php file provided.
If the instance name of the email section is "email" the php
file will read like this:
email=$_POST['email'];
The name inside the apostrophes is the instance name of that
box.
Looking at the scripts you have provided the instances and
variables in the form do not match the ones in the .php file.
If I am wrong, you can send me the original file if you wish
and I can most likely find the problem for you and fix it.
Or if you need help assessing this, I can do it for you! =P
my email is [email protected]
Hope I helped.
Cheers!