Emails and Web templates using XML

am a self confessed newbie to web sites and programing.. So when asked to put a website together, it was a challenge I was willing to take on.. BUT when it turned out to be around flash and XML.. Nightmare !!!

the website is a template - xml-creative-portfolio-deeplinking-template and this has a file 'contact.xml. that has 0 bytes (nothing on page) and the settings.xml and email.php script give no clue as to how to set up the contact form located on 'Contact' page.

Nothing about the form on this template works other than you can see it !!!

Does 'anybody' have a clue as to what I need to do to get this working?

Maybe give a total newbie clear instruction that my kid sister could follow?

Not a clue. We'd really have to know how the site works, what the Flash app does, the schema for the XML files... to be able to give any specific advice.

Someone's telling you to put the site together so they must know something about it. Ask them.

Thanks for the prompt reply - You made some obvious and very relevant points !!

Of course you have no clue. I have given little to help

As I say.. Contact.xml is an empty page.. So reads nothing (very odd)

The site's settings.xml has the following for e-mail -


The Email.php is within it's own folder /PHP and this reads -

If it helps the whole site/code is located here -

http://www.ihost4u.co.uk/code.zip

When the site is active, it will bee soon clear that the direct email link on Contact page works, since this is using local email calls. On the same page, the form look pretty. BUT does not have any links to any external mail service I can see. So is clearly tested as not working !!

Hope this helps...

As for asking the owner of would be site ??

She has less a clue than I do !!

Paste your code into the big text area, highlight it, THEN click the code button. All your code is one line and we can't read it.

Who designed this site in the first place? Why is it the blind leading the blind? Where's the person who knows the answers?

I have redone script posting in original message rather than duplicate..

As for blind leading the blind? Everybody needs to start an education at some point. My friend apparently wanted a site to give her home run business a professional look to it. And having taken my suggestion of 'go look' and find something I might work with, came back as... Well.. As you see... !!

HTML I understand.. PHP to a point.. I understand. Photoshop and Micky mouse level web sites I can do eyes closed. XML ??? Is why I am here !!!

He meant that you (who doesn't know how the system works) are leading us (who also don't know how the system works). It's seemingly some custom site which means we know nothing about it, and if you know nothing about it either then we're kinda at an impasse.

The email script isn't very secure but so far that's the only thing we can help with. Seeing the XML helps but it's hard to tell what it does without seeing the code (Flash, I assume) that uses it.

Also, what's the question? The contact form isn't working? How so?

Also the site owner/operator doesn't know how it works. There's 5 people involved, none of them know how this is supposed to work.

In my defense guys. I did place a url with a download. Its the whole site as given to me. It should provide 'context'.

What I have with regards .as is this -

[/CODE]package components.sections.contact
{
import com.creativearmenia.tween.Tweenik;
import com.creativearmenia.tween.easing.Expo;
import com.creativearmenia.util.Base64;

import data.SiteData;

import flash.display.Sprite;
import flash.events.Event;
import flash.events.MouseEvent;
import flash.net.URLLoader;
import flash.net.URLRequest;
import flash.net.URLVariables;
import flash.text.AntiAliasType;
import flash.text.TextField;
import flash.text.TextFieldAutoSize;
import flash.text.TextFormat;
import flash.utils.setTimeout;


public class FeedbackForm extends Sprite
{
//private variables
private var _input1:InputArea;
private var _input2:InputArea;
private var _input3:InputArea;

private var _sendButton:SendButton;

private var _text:TextField;
private var _textFormat:TextFormat;

private var _email:String;

public function FeedbackForm(mail:String)
{
_email = mail;

//create Name Form
_input1 = new InputArea(SiteData.settings.feedbackFormWidth, SiteData.settings.feedbackFormSmallHeight, false, String(SiteData.settings.feedbackFormNameText), "not mail");
_input1.x = 0;
_input1.y = 0;
addChild(_input1);

//create Email Form
_input2 = new InputArea(SiteData.settings.feedbackFormWidth, SiteData.settings.feedbackFormSmallHeight, false, String(SiteData.settings.feedbackFormEmailText), "mail");
_input2.x = 0;
_input2.y = uint(SiteData.settings.feedbackFormSmallHeight) + 5;
addChild(_input2);

//create Message Form
_input3 = new InputArea(SiteData.settings.feedbackFormWidth, SiteData.settings.feedbackFormBigHeight, true, String(SiteData.settings.feedbackFormMessageText), "not mail");
_input3.x = 0;
_input3.y = 2 * uint(SiteData.settings.feedbackFormSmallHeight) + 10;
addChild(_input3);

//create Send Button
_sendButton = new SendButton();
_sendButton.x = SiteData.settings.feedbackFormWidth - _sendButton.width;
_sendButton.y = _input3.y + uint(SiteData.settings.feedbackFormBigHeight) + 10;
_sendButton.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, sendClick);
addChild(_sendButton);



_textFormat = new TextFormat();
_textFormat.color = SiteData.settings.thankYouTextColor;
_textFormat.size = SiteData.settings.thankYouTextSize;
_textFormat.font = main._siteFontName;

//create Thank You Text
_text = new TextField();
_text.defaultTextFormat = _textFormat;
_text.text = SiteData.settings.thankYouText;
_text.selectable = false;
_text.embedFonts = true;
_text.antiAliasType = AntiAliasType.ADVANCED;
_text.width = uint(SiteData.settings.feedbackFormWidth) - 50;
_text.height = SiteData.settings.thankYouTextSize + 6;
_text.x = 0;
_text.y = _sendButton.y;
_text.alpha = 0;

addChild(_text);
}


private function sendClick(event:MouseEvent):void
{
if (_input1.getCheck() == true && _input2.getCheck() == true && _input3.getCheck() == true)
{
_sendButton.removeEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, sendClick);
_sendButton.disable();

var url:URLLoader = new URLLoader();
var req:URLRequest = new URLRequest("php/email.php");
var urlvar:URLVariables = new URLVariables();
urlvar["sendto"] = Base64.encode(_email);
urlvar["name"] = Base64.encode(_input1.getText());
urlvar["email"] = Base64.encode(_input2.getText());
urlvar["question"] = Base64.encode(_input3.getText());
req.data = urlvar;

url.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, complete);
url.load(req);
}
}

private function complete(event:Event):void
{
_input1.clear_();
_input2.clear_();
_input3.clear_();
_sendButton.enable();
_sendButton.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, sendClick);

Tweenik.to(_text, .7, {alpha:1}, {ease:Expo.easeOut, onComplete:hideAgain});
}

private function hideAgain(e:Event):void
{
setTimeout(fadeOut, 3000);
}

private function fadeOut():void
{
Tweenik.to(_text, .7, {alpha:0}, {ease:Expo.easeOut});
}
}
}[/CODE]

And it (I think) suggests a link between what ever is given in .xml somehow gets passed (??) into .php. (like I would know this !!) This code came from my 'tearing' a .swf file apart with some tool in an attempt to figure out what's what.. Or at least 'try' to sort out my problem alone..

And given to date nobody has been able to answer my seemingly basic question; I guess I need to try another web site. Or just give up on finding anybody who knows enough to 'actually' advise..