Hello all,
Flex is not liking the way I setup the Object in a CDATA block
in a Form Component.
I have a Form component in a forms subfolder/subdirectory of
the src directory/folder. I have an application in the src folder
called FormRequest.mxml and in the forms folder I setup a Form
Component that I called ContactForm.mxml
My form processor will take variable value pairs and email them
to me. In HTML, I use a form tag and then <input name="name"
type="text"/>
So, I have in the Form component (which is in the file
ContactForms.mxml in the forms subfolder) an HTTPService as such:
<mx:HTTPService id="myContactService"
url="FormToEmail.php"
method="POST"/>
Then I have
<mx:FormItem label="Name:">
<mx:TextInput id="Name" width="195"/>
</mx:FormItem>
<mx:FormItem id="Email" label="Email:" fontSize="16">
<mx:TextInput width="195"/>
</mx:FormItem>
<mx:FormItem label="Your Message:" fontSize="16">
<mx:TextArea id="Message" height="100" width="195"/>
</mx:FormItem>
<mx:FormItem>
<mx:Button label="Contact Us" fontSize="16"
click="myContactService.send(obj)"/>
</mx:FormItem>
In the CDATA AS block, I have this:
var obj:Object = new Object();
obj.Name = Name.text;
obj.Email = Email.text;
obj.Message = Message.text;
It doesn't like this, as it gives me an error message on the 2nd, 3rd
and 4th lines saying that obj is an undefined property. Am I missing
public or private in front of the var? Sometimes I get confused when
that is left off the code.
Somehow, I've got to get the Name, Email and Message, that the user
types into the Form Items, connected to the obj Object. Then I have
to give it to the FormToEmail.php form processor that takes _POST
['inputtextvariable']
It looks for variables of that form in the _POST variable. In HTML
the data comes from the name attribute of the INPUT tag.
Should all of this be in the ContactForm.mxml component? This is
called from FormRequest.mxml inside a Panel, I have this:
<mx:Panel title="Contact Us">
<forms:ContactForm id="myContactForm"/>
</mx:Panel>
Does this sound right? I mean other than the fact that the Form
component is not liking obj, saying it is undefined. I tried hitting
ctrl-space to see if it would add an import for the Object class but
it must not be needed.
Can anyone explain this more clearly, how to get information from a
flex Form tag, representing a Form class, into a _POST[] array
variable that the php FormToEmail.php form processor will email to me?
Thanks,
Bruce
