send form contents to asp

You should do some tutorials and/or read some articles so you have a better understanding of how this communication takes place. Try these...

http://www.flashmagazine.com/695.htm

http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flash/articles/flashpro_asp_02.html

http://flash-db.com/Tutorials/databind/CatalogTutorial.php?page=1

These should help you gain a better understanding of how to make flash communicate with scripts on your server.

I would if I knew how. I'm using a version of formmail that's encoded in asp. It should be all ready to go. I just can't figure out how to get the data out of flash and into the .asp page. All I need is 3 form fields with 5 hidden fields, but I'm not sure how to properly set up the hidden fields in flash. This was all a breeze in html, but it's really frustrating in flash. I really appreciate your help, though!!!

I'm also struggling with the stinking hidden fields. I made some text fields using the text tool and assigning them as Input Text in the properties section. I then assign an instance name and content in the variable box as the info I want sent with the hidden field. Is this the appropriate way to go about this? I've searched and searched on this topic but have not found an easy answer.

assuming your input fields are TextInput components.

formData.name = Name.text;
formData.email = Email.text;
formData.comments = Comments.text;

you would do the same sort of thing for your hidden fields depending what type of component they are.

then the variables that you will be requesting in your asp are name, email, comments and whatever other form data you send.

I'm slowly getting the hang of this. So, I do have an asp processing page and I want to send several form field contents, some user definable, some hidden, to the process page. Here's what my code looks like so far:

on (release) {
formData = new LoadVars();

//set your variables in your LoadVars Instance
formData.user = Name.text; //or whatever your form component is

//create LoadVars instance to receive reply
replyData = new LoadVars();
replyData.onLoad = myReplyFunction;

//submit the data
formData.sendAndLoad(" http://www.mysite.com/process.asp", replyData, "POST");
}

The visible form fields I have are Name, Email, Comments and the hidden fields are _recipients, _subject, _replyToField. How do I format the code properly to send all this data to my asp page? Thanks again for your help!!!

I don't know why this seems so hard. I'm using Flash 8 and I can't find the formData within the script wizard. Also, if I want to send this to an embedded email address, where and how do I put that within the script? Thanks in advance!

use something like this:

formData = new LoadVars();

//set your variables in your LoadVars Instance
formData.user = name_txt.text; //or whatever your form component is

//create LoadVars instance to receive reply
replyData = new LoadVars();
replyData.onLoad = myReplyFunction;

//submit the data
formData.sendAndLoad(" http://www.mysite.com/myformhandler.asp", replyData, "POST");