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Creating email form with flash and php
We will add four input boxes for
To
From
Subject
Body
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1. Pick up the Text Tool and write To, From, Subject, Body in a static form. Choose Static from text box properties like this
2. Now make another TEXT box using TEXT Tool and set its properties asinput box, like this
and place it in front of text To, so it will look like this
3. Now we have to attach a variable with this input box. For that we will click on the input box and in its Properties tab we will input the variable name. See the RED rounded rectangle area. The variable
we will is to.
4. Now COPY and PASTE this input box and place in front of From, Subject and Body so it will look like this
now stretct the BODY input box and change its varialbe name and also from single line to multiple line.
5. Now you will have to change the variables names of each INPUT Boxes.Click on the input box which is in front of From and in its properties change its variable name to from. Now click on the input box infront of Subject and change its variable name to subject. Click in Body input box and change its variable name to body.
6. Now make a button “SEND” and in its action put the following code.
if (to eq “” || from eq”" || subject eq “” || body eq “”) {
getURL(”javascript:alert(”All fields are required”);”);
} else {
send = “done”;
loadVariablesNum(”mail.php”, 0, “POST”);
getURL(”javascript:alert(”Your mail has been successfully sent”);”);
from=”";
subject=”";
body=”";
}
7. Now we have to make a check either all the input boxes are filled or not, for that right click on the first frame of the Layer one and click on Action.
in its action panel paste the following code.
stop();
to=”";
from=”";
subject=”";
body=”";
Finally the mail form will look like this.
[i]All Flash work is done. Now we have to make our PHP code
Now we have to integrate the variables we have made in Flash with PHP script.
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1. Open NOTEPAD or any Text Editor you like.
2. Paste the following code into that
if ($send==”done”) {
$to = escapeshellcmd($to);
$subject = escapeshellcmd($subject);
$body = escapeshellcmd($body);
$from = escapeshellcmd($from);
$tfrom = “From: <$from>”;
mail($to,$subject,$body,$tfrom);
}
?>
3. Save this file with name mail.php
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Now you have to find any webserver thats supports PHP scripts, so that you can test you Email Sender program. Upload your HTML, SWF and PHP file in the same folder. Hope it helps.
There are only a few steps for sending mails through Flash and PHP. First thing is ofcourse to design an interface using that you will be for sending mails, and the second portion is the PHP code. So we will start
with the first portion to make an interface and attach Variables with input boxes.
Embedding flash movie in visual basic
In this example we will add a simple animated SWF in VB.
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This is just Flash part. ———————— — Follow The Steps — ———————— 1. Write TEXT and convert it to symbol. 2. Just give it some Fade out Effect. 3. Export it as swishdb.swf |
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1. Run VB6 and select Standard EXE
2. Now save both FORM and PROJECT with name swishdb.
3. Now right click on the left tool bar and select Components.
4. Now from components —-> Controls, check the option of Shockwave Flash and press OK
5. Now you will see a new component in the left tool bar.
now click on it, and draw a rectangle on your form. It will look like a white rectangle, you can set its height and width from Properties.
6. Now simple click on that white rectangle and now see its properties on the right side. Its properties will look like this
Now click on the button in front of CUSTOM. A window will apear like this
7. Now give the exact path of your SWF file (swishdb.swf). And check the option
of Embed Movie.
8. Now you can set different properties from Properties. For example if you want to make your movie transparent, then do the following steps. Scroll down all properties, you will see an option WMode, now write Transparent in front of it, so it will look like this.
9. Now RUN your project. If you make EXE file, the SWF movie is embeded in the main source, now you can delete those SWF files.
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You can use this tutorial for both Flash and SWiSH. Because the method
of embedding SWF is same.
Creating basic animation in flash
I assume that you have a little knowledge of flash. Before making an animation let me make it clear to you that whenver you make any animation you have to convert your object to a Graphic Symbol.
1. Draw a rectangle.
2. Select the whole area of rectangle with Arrow Tool
3. Now convert it to a graphic symbol, goto menu Insert and click
on Covert to Symbol. And from that popup window, select Graphic option.
Now your rectangle is a graphic symbol.
4. RightClick on frame number 20 and selcect Insert Keyframe.
5. Now LeftCilck on frame number 20, and drag your rectangle to any other position, put it in the left botton corner.
Create Motion Tween.
well - thats all. this is basic.
hope it helps.
How to do shape tweening in flash
other shape, for example a rectangle will be converted to a circle
in the following example.
Example : View here
We will make two examples of shape tweaning, because tweening
of TEXT is different than shape.
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Tweaning of Shape Follow the steps, your animation will convert a rectangle to circle.1. Open new file. 2. Make a rectngle on the first frame. 3. Now if you want a quick animation, (it depends on you how many frames you want) right click on Frame number 10. 4. Select Insert Keyframe from that menu. Now you will see another DOT on frame number 10. 5. Left click on Frame 10 and delete that frame. Now only frame number 10 is empty, other 9 frames are not empty. 6. Now click on Fram 10 and drae a circle. Now if you see there is a Circle on frame number 10 and a rectangle on all other frames. 7. Now click on any frame between 1 and 10. 8. Now if you see in properties (at the bottom) there will be written Tween and in front of this, there will be a combobox, now you have to select Shape from it. 9. You are done. Now run your movie. |
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Applying TWEEN to Text. When you apply tweaning to TEXT its a little bit different. Because you cannot directly apply tweening to text. You dont need to do anything else, there only one change in doing so. 1. Write text “SWiSH-DB”. 4. Now again goto Modify menu and select Break Apart. 5. Now rightclick on frame number 10 and select Inert Keyframem and delete this frame. |
thats all. This is very easy and basic tutorial for newbies, I am sure it will
help the newbies arround SWiSH-DB.