Life of a Glasgow Flash Developer

With the Simple flash AS3 contact form recently seeing over 5000 downloads I’ve decided to add a new one.

Bit better looking than the last with help file and all code commented

Included are:

• contactForm.fla (Flash 8 )/contactForm.fla (Flash 9 )
• caurina tweener classes AS2/caurina tweener classes AS3
• contact.php
• kharon4a_mini font
• index.html
• contactForm.swf
• AC_RunActiveContent.js

Features:

• Three different sized forms
• All fields validation
• Email validation
• No reference to root. Simply drag the required form on to your project from the library
• Courtesy thank you email sent to the form submitter, can be turned off
• IP address capture and display link to ip look up tools in sent email
• Nicely formatted html email. Can be set to send html or none html formatted email
• Only 3 variables to be set in the php script and your good to go

Font(s) used:

• kharon4a_mini

http://www.orgdot.com/aliasfonts/

How to modify the file:

Instruction 1: Open the contact.php script and go to line 11 and add your email, sitename and your name

Once that is done you can upload the script to your server

Instruction 2: There are 3 other options found between line 16-21. $sendHtml, $sendCourtesy and $fColour

These option can be left as they are.

Instruction 3: Simply drag ‘n’ drop the required form mc from the library onto your project. Also make sure to copy over the caurina tweener classes to your project folder and the contact.php script.

The php script has been tested on a linux based server and windows dedicated server with php support.

New send to friend form added to Activeden files

AS2 Smooth Send to Friend form

Smooth looking send to friend form. Form requires that your server support php. Only two lines in the php file to edit and it’s good to go. Simply drag ‘n’ drop the “form window” from the library onto your projects or use as is. All fields have validation checking. Smooth fade animation

Click here to purchase the AS2 send to friend form

How to get those questions answered on the developer forums:

* Title your post properly. A descriptive title attracts the attention of a person who might know the answer to your question while a vague title will go unnoticed only to be read by someone who happens to “stumble” upon it.

* Ask short, clear and concise questions. If you can get a reader to understand your problem then you’re half way to finding an answer.

* Ask intelligent questions. While there may not be any stupid questions, there certainly are smart ones. A smart question shows you’ve done your homework or researched your problem a little, in short it shows that you “have a clue”. Helping those who can help themselves is much more rewarding than helping someone who will forever require help.

* Try to use something close to proper English when asking a question. A person who can’t form a sentence probably won’t grasp the finer details of a programming “language” either (and therefore will fall into the “clueless” category alluded to previously). If English isn’t your native language, let people know about it (taking the time to fill in the “Location” field of your User Profile may help with this). I can’t speak for everyone but I tend to have more respect for someone struggling with English as a second language than I would for someone who’s gone through 12 years or more of school and still doesn’t get it.

* Ask an original question. Sometimes it’s fun to get involved in a unique problem even though it may be complex or difficult. Such questions tend to educate both the person asking the question and the person answering it.

* Search before you ask. Questions which have been asked a thousand times before tend to go unanswered. Nobody wants to repeat the same answer over and over again. The best way to find out if your question has been asked before is to use the search button at the top right of every forum page.

* Help other people. If you’ve taken the time to help the community the community will generally take time to help you.

* Strip, ZIP and Clip. When attaching (Clipping) a file to better illustrate your problem, be sure to reduce (Strip) it to its bare essentials so as to minimize the amount of time spent sifting through extraneous code. Compressing (Zipping) your file also minimizes the amount of time the person trying to help you will spend waiting for your file to download. Doing these things shows you’re willing to help others help you.

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* Post your question in the most appropriate forum. While your question may fit into more than one category you should only post your question once in the forum most likely to be read by people who would know the answer. Posting your question more than once is called “cross-posting” and is frowned upon since it litters the forum database and wastes the time of a person responding to your question when you’ve already received an answer elsewhere.

* Don’t ask for too much. If it would take a book’s worth of knowledge to fully answer your question then you should probably buy the book.

* Thank those who help you. If you can’t take the time to thank or otherwise acknowledge someone who has taken the time to help you, chances are that person (or others who read the the thread) won’t take the time to help you again. If you can’t be bothered to say thanks, other people surely can’t be bothered to help you.

pixelwit

This is an example of how AS3 aint all that bad.
I simply converted an already existing AS2 contact form to AS3.
Looking at the fla you will see that not much has changed.
The only major difference is how you setup sending your vars to the php script.
An example can be seen here.

I have also attached a working fla with php script.

Need a custom contact form built?
Feel free to email me