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    How to Send Email with Flash and ASP

    06/29/2003
    by Kenn Schroder

    The tutorial will assume the reader is relatively new to Flash, and has no real working knowledge of
    ASP. At the same time, the tutorial will not go into excessive detail regarding non-Flash items.
    Try It Out
    Try out the Flash E-mailer
    Purpose

    1. What are the advantages of being able to send email using Flash? There are several.
    2. First off, by creating a Flash movie that can send email, you will have in effect, created a remote
    email sender. This is great if you are not at home where your mailing software (ex Outlook) is
    not available.
    3. Also if you do not even have an email address, or any emailing program, or do not even own a
    computer, and you need to contact someone who does have an email address, you can use this
    Flash movie to do so.
    4. From a cosmetic web site point of view, the ability to send email within a Flash movie or Flash
    web site is more appealing then having to open up the client’s email program(ex Outlook),
    which you can suspect will look nothing like your web site or movie. In fact, many visitors,
    especially new ones, which are popping up on the web almost every second, may have actually
    thought that they left your site, for example my aunt.
    5. Also, by opening up the computers email program, your visitor will have to wait. Waiting time is
    one of the largest considerations when building sites, even Flash sites. Not only is the waiting
    less than ideal, your visitor’s attention is drawn away from your site, and may even get
    permanently diverted into reading his/her own email.
    6. Finally, a great reason to add email ability to your movie or site, is to get feedback. Combined
    with a simple survey using form elements, you can make a quick and easy to fill out feedback
    email.

    Background

     An ASP page is an active server page. The purpose of ASP is to perform certain tasks on
    the server. One of these tasks is to send email.
     This tutorial is based on a server/client environment. The person (you) at your
    computer is viewing a Flash movie on your computer, is the client. A computer
    elsewhere(on the web for example) will run the ASP page and send your mail, is the
    server.
     So in summary, your Flash movie will run on your computer, gather the email
    information from you, and send it to the ASP page. The ASP page will take that email
    information and send out the email. Simple.

    Here are the steps.

    1. Step 1 – Flash Movie


    Make a Flash movie, I called mine flashemail.fla. There will only be one frame in this movie.
    2. Step 2 – Add Text
    Add static text and input text, as shown in the screenshot below. To do this, use the text tool,
    along with the character panel and the text options panel. Name the input text fields emailfrom,
    emailto, emailsubject, and emailbody. (notice in the screenshot below, the input field under the
    text “message” is outlined in blue, and in the text options panel, the associated variable is
    emailbody.)

    3. Step 3 – Add buttons


    Add two buttons to the bottom, one to clear the form and one to send the email. I named mine
    clear and send. Add the action-script to each of the buttons, as I have done in the below
    screenshots.

    on (release) {
    emailto = "";
    emailfrom = "";
    emailsubject = "";
    emailmessage = "";
    }

    on (release) {
    getURL ("http://www.lifug.org/kenn/mail.asp", "_blank", "GET");
    }
    4. Step 4 – Create ASP Page.
    In any text or.asp editor of your choice, create the below page. The URL for this page needs to
    be obtained and entered into the action-script that lies on the send button, as above. If you
    wish, you can skip this section and simply use the already created ASP page at (note: the
    address of the asp page in the picture above does not exist. You will need to make the asp page
    available on the internet.)

    <.asp>
    <head>
    <title>Emailer ASP</title>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text.asp; charset=iso-8859-1">
    </head>

    <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000">

    <%

    Dim strFrom, strTo, strSubject, strBody

    strFrom = Request.Querystring("emailfrom")
    strTo = Request.Querystring("emailto")
    strSubject = Request.Querystring("emailsubject")
    strBody = Request.Querystring("emailbody")

    Dim MyMail
    Set MyMail = Server.CreateObject("CDONTS.NewMail")

    MyMail.From = strFro
    MyMail.To = strTo
    MyMail.Subject = strSubject
    MyMail.BodyFormat = 1
    MyMail.MailFormat = 0
    MyMail.Importance = 2
    MyMail.Body = strBody
    MyMail.Send

    Set MyMail = Nothing

    %>

    Your email has been sent.

    </body>
    <.asp>

    Done
    Here are a few key points about the ASP page above. The series of “Request.Querystring” is used to
    pull in the values from Flash. The “MyMail” object is created on the server, and it holds the email
    information from the Flash movie. After the properties of the object are set, the actual send of the
    email is performed by the method “Send” as in the line “MyMail.Send.”

    Here ends the tutorial. Enjoy.

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