Trouble linking AS3 and PHP to create email form

Question

I am using one of the Adobe cookbooks to create an email form for my flash website. I am SO close to getting this right and need some help! I used the AS3 code below as well as the PHP code below in order to create the email form. Everything seems to be working fine, that is until I try to send an email using the form. When I input all of the text into the form, I get the actionscript default warning I wrote that states "Oh no! Something is wrong! Try again..." Hence the email will not send. What could be wrong with the script? Or does it matter where I file the PHP file, my swf file, html file, and my fla file? I tried several combinations of filing everything together, seperate, and everything in between. Help! And thanks for anyone who can help!
ACTIONSCRIPT CODE USED:
stop();
Buttons      
sendbtn.buttonMode = true;
sendbtn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, submit);
resetbtn.buttonMode = true;
resetbtn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, reset);
Variables needed       
var timer:Timer; var varLoad:URLLoader = new URLLoader;
var urlRequest:URLRequest = new URLRequest( "mail.php" );
urlRequest.method = URLRequestMethod.POST;
Functions
function init():void{
//Set all fields to empty
yourName.text = "";
fromEmail.text = "";
yourSubject.text = "";
YourMsg.text = "";
function submit(e:MouseEvent):void{
//Check to see if any of the fields are empty
if( yourName.text == "" || fromEmail.text == "" ||
yourSubject.text == "" ||YourMsg.text == "" )
{ valid.text = "All fields need to be filled.";
//Check if you're using a valid email address
else if( !checkEmail(fromEmail.text) )
{ valid.text = "Enter a valid email address"; }
else { valid.text = "Sending over the internet...";
var emailData:String = "name="
+ yourName.text + "&from="
+ fromEmail.text + "&subject="
+ yourSubject.text + "&msg=" + YourMsg.text;
var urlVars:URLVariables = new URLVariables(emailData);
urlVars.dataFormat = URLLoaderDataFormat.TEXT;
urlRequest.data = urlVars; varLoad.load( urlRequest );
varLoad.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, thankYou );
function reset(e:MouseEvent):void{
init(); //call the initial clear function
function checkEmail(s:String):Boolean {
//This tests for correct email address
var p:RegExp = /(\w|[_.\-])+@((\w|-)+\.)+\w{2,4}+/; var
r:Object = p.exec(s);
if( r == null ) {
return false;
return true;
function thankYou(e:Event):void {
var loader:URLLoader =
URLLoader(e.target);
var sent = new
URLVariables(loader.data).sentStatus; if( sent == "yes" )
valid.text = "Thanks for your email!";
timer = new Timer(500);
timer.addEventListener(TimerEvent.TIMER, msgSent);
timer.start();
else {
valid.text = "Oh no! Something is wrong! Try again..."; }
function msgSent(te:TimerEvent):void {
if( timer.currentCount >= 10 ) { init();
timer.removeEventListener(TimerEvent.TIMER, msgSent);
PHP CODE USED
<?php $yourName = $_POST['name'];
$fromEmail = $_POST['from']; 
$yourSubject = $yourSubject = $_POST['subject'];
$YourMsg = $_POST['msg'];
if( $yourName == true ) { $sender = $fromEmail; $yourEmail ="[email protected]";  (I have changed this to my email address, although not given in example)
$ipAddress = $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']; 
$emailMsg = "$ipAddress \n$yourName  \n$sender
\n\n$YourMsg 
\n\n\n--Memo for myself--";$return = "From: $sender\r\n" .
"Reply-To:$sender \r\n" ."X-Mailer: PHP/" . phpversion();
if( mail( $yourEmail, "$yourSubject", $emailMsg, $return
echo "sentStatus=yes"; }
else { echo "sentStatus=no"; } }
{ $sender = $fromEmail; $yourEmail ="$fromEmail"; 
$emailMsg = "\n\n\n--Memo for the sender. i.e. this is a copy of message you sent me.--
\n\n$yourName  \n$sender
\n$YourMsg \n";$return = "From: $sender\r\n" .
"Reply-To:$sender \r\n" ."X-Mailer: PHP/" . phpversion();
if( mail( $yourEmail, "$yourSubject", $emailMsg, $return
echo "sentStatus=yes"; }
else { echo "sentStatus=no"; } }
?>

Answer 1

It may be indeed a problem of your server rsp. how it handles security issues and relative path-linking.
You wrote: "Or does it matter where I file the PHP file, my swf file, html file, and my fla file..." I suppose you mean where to put all the files.
1.Its a good beginners choice to put all the files you need (swf, html, php you don`t need the fla file on ) in the same directory of your server.
2.If you publish to html from flash there will be three tags in the html (use a texteditor to look at the html-code) that read like this:
<param name="allowScriptAccess" value="sameDomain" />
change them for testing purposes to
<param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always" />
3.On some servers to prevent malicious code php scripts are restricted to certain directorys, look up the phpinfo on your server
4.Even if swf, html and php are in one and the same directory use a "hard" path in your fla file for testing purposes, for example instead of calling "file.php" in your actionscript, call ("http://www.mydomain.com/directory/file.php"), when testing from flash you may get a better response where the problem lies