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UPDATE : The files for this have been moved to my main site now.  You can find them here. 

Per request on the Adobe Actionscript Forums, this is the base code I have used for a contact form for some time now.  There are a few things that need to be changed such as $toaddress in the PHP file (should be set to your e-mail address) and the mail.php call in both version of the Flash FLA need to be updated with the full path to the mail.php file after it has been uploaded to your server.  Click Read More for the code.

 The PHP File (mail.php)

<?php

/* mail.php - version 1.0 */
/* Basic form mailer script */
/* creator - Mike Garcia II */

/* Pull POST data from Flash */
$name=$_POST[’name’];
$email=$_POST[’email’];
$message=$_POST[’message’];

/* Title of the E-mail */
$subject = ‘Mail Form Title’;

/* The e-mail address we’ll send the data to. */
$toaddress=’email@somedomain.com’;

/* This is not general practice.
   Typically you’ll want to error check all data being sent from
   Flash. All we’re doing here is simple formatting.
*/
$name=trim($name);
$email=trim($email);
$subject=stripslashes($subject);
$message=stripslashes($message);

/* Send our e-mail
   If mail() succeeds, respond with success message
   If mail() fails, send with failure message
*/
if(mail($toaddress,$subject,$message,’From: ‘.$name.’ <’.$email.’>’)){
 echo ‘response=passed’;
} else {
 echo ‘response=failed’;
} 
?>

 The Flash 8 (AS2) Document (as2contact.fla - Download)

// Email LoadVars
var sVars = new LoadVars();
var rVars = new LoadVars();

rVars.onLoad = function() {
 
 if(this.response == “passed”){
  eName.text = “”;
  eEmail.text = “”;
  eComments.text = “”;
  
  message.text = “”;
 }
}

submit.onRelease = function(){
 
 // Set up sender
 sVars.eName  = eName.text;
 sVars.eEmail = eEmail.text;
 sVars.eComm  = eComments.text;
 
 trace(”Sending: ” + sVars.toString());
 
 message.text = “Sending e-mail…”;
 
 sVars.sendAndLoad(”mail.php”, rVars, “POST”);
}

The Flash CS3 (AS3) Document - (as3contact.fla - Download)

submitBTN.buttonMode = true;
submitBTN.addEventListener( MouseEvent.CLICK, submitClick );
submitBTN.addEventListener( MouseEvent.MOUSE_OVER, submitOver );
submitBTN.addEventListener( MouseEvent.MOUSE_OUT, submitOut );

function submitClick( e:MouseEvent ):void {
 // Send the form
 sendData();
}

function submitOver( e:MouseEvent ):void {
 // Go to roll-over state for the button
 submitBTN.gotoAndStop(2);
}

function submitOut( e:MouseEvent ):void {
 // Go to the normal state for the button
 submitBTN.gotoAndStop(1);
}

function sendData():void {
 var variables:URLVariables = new URLVariables();
 variables.custname = nameBox.text;
 variables.cusemail = emailBox.text;
 variables.custbody = commentBox.text;
 variables.sendresponse = “SENDING”
 
 msgBox.text = variables.sendresponse;
 
 var _request:URLRequest = new URLRequest( “mail.php?cacheKiller=” + (new Date()).getTime());
 _request.data = variables;
 _request.method = URLRequestMethod.POST;
 
 var loader:URLLoader = new URLLoader();
 loader.dataFormat = URLLoaderDataFormat.VARIABLES;
 loader.addEventListener( Event.COMPLETE, sendComplete );
 loader.addEventListener( IOErrorEvent.IO_ERROR, sendIOError );
 loader.load( _request );
}

function sendComplete( e:Event ):void {
 msgBox.text = “E-mail Sent”;
 clearForm();
 
 var tmr:Timer = new Timer( 5000, 1 );
 tmr.addEventListener( TimerEvent.TIMER, clearMessage );
 tmr.start();
}

function sendIOError( e:IOErrorEvent ):void {
 msgBox.text = “Error sending e-mail”;
 
 var tmr:Timer = new Timer( 5000, 1 );
 tmr.addEventListener( TimerEvent.TIMER, clearMessage );
 tmr.start();
}

function clearForm( ):void {
 nameBox.text = “”;
 emailBox.text = “”;
 commentBox.text = “”;
}

function clearMessage( e:Event ):void {
 msgBox.text = “”;
}