Turan,

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR> data_required <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

that's identical to the following I'm using:

INPUT TYPE="hidden" name="param_required" value="briefing,firstname,lastname,phone,e-mail"

Instead of 'data_required' I'm sending 'param_required'.

The point is as follows: called from a HTML page, the cgi checks and validates the data. If one of the specified data fields in your

< form > input type=hidden name=data_required

does not match the condition, the cgi will pull up an error page in your browser. However, if a data string is missed, it can't pull a page from your FLASH, you are in trouble.

Solution: either comment out this line or delete it. You should already check the data fields in your flash mc:

On (Press)
If (email eq "")
Begin Tell Target ("mailer interactive01")
Go to and Stop (4)
End Tell Target
---
this part checks the field 'email' and if this is empty (expression "") it tells a subsequent mc to play a warning. However, if the field is not empty, the mc will proceed as follows:
---

Else
Set Variable: "param_recipient" = "your_name@your_domain.com"
Set Variable: "param_subject" = "message from turan"
Set Variable: "param_order" = "name,email,message"
Set Variable: "param_database" = "flashportfolio.txt"
Get URL ("http://.../cgi-bin/forms.cgi", window="_blank", vars=POST)
Play
End If
End On

You can't specify a 'data_required' in flash, becauxe the cgi can not interact with flash, only with html pages (unless you insert some javascript).

Note that your cgi might not feature all these parameters I've posted above.

Just checked your site:

input type="HIDDEN" name="required" value="submit_by,message"

this line won't work with flash...

I think we have nailed your problem.

jens

jens g.r. benthien
designer
http://www.sacalobra.de

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[This message was edited by jens g.r. benthien on April 09, 2003 at 09:38.]