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Hi everyone, i am a bit new to the web design world. I just completed a book on how to USe Macromedia Flash. However there was no mention on how to create forms there.

I am planning to create a flash based webpage that has a contact form or registration page, that maybe submits to my email address.

Can anyone help out please?

why don't you create your form using xhtml instead of flash. Macromedia flash has it own short-comings and for compatibility wise, it's not advisable!

- nitation

Heed nitation's advice. Start from the ground up. Once you have xhtml forms down pat, then you can go for the advanced stuff. You may choose to visit www.w3schools.com for various tutorials.

Good luck!

nitation:
why don't you create your form using xhtml instead of flash. Macromedia flash has it own short-comings and for compatibility wise, it's not advisable!

- nitation

im not sure poster is implying that he doesnt know how to do forms with html/xhtml he might just be trying to venture into something different.

@post,

im not certain but i think i have seen tools for creating forms in flash when i attempted learning macromedia flash 7.

Thanks Guys, i know some bit bout creating forms using dreamweaver, just the basic, i never actually got to linking them too,

I think most of this books i buy are just half baked.

yawa-ti-de:
You may choose to visit www.w3schools.com for various tutorials.

Wow, i didnt know there was a site with alot of free(AND EXCELLENT) web design stuffs. i checked it out and it contains alot.


Thanks to everyone who gave an advice,

bigjoe,

I got the inference from:

Hi everyone, i am a bit new to the web design world.

I guess poster wasn't specific enough.

poster:
I am happy to have been of service. Again, get the basics, no matter how much you think you know down pat then venture into the flash world. That's all I can say. Good luck!

OP, you can create forms in flash or better still Flex Builder 3, but the processing. . .and other stuffs are more complicated.
If i teach you here how to create forms in any of the flash/flex, to process the form is a different business entirely.

Best advice is to stick to your xhtml forms, unless you are working on a project that MUST use flash forms.

And again, as a newbie, i think it will do you more good to leave flash alone for now (dont get flashed carried away).

Thanks guys. I was so carried away by the effects in flash. You know like when you visit http://www.omotola.tv. but i will take all the advice so far. Work on W3schools for like 6months. then i will see if i still need Flash,

iight man. Just let us know whenever you are stuck.

webnewbie:
Thanks guys. I was so carried away by the effects in flash. You know like when you visit http://www.omotola.tv. but i will take all the advice so far. Work on W3schools for like 6months. then i will see if i still need Flash,

if you noticed from that website, the form section is not flash, so all you need to do is design a page for the form, similar to the other pages and just link it

kolitos007:
if you noticed from that website, the form section is not flash, so all you need to do is design a page for the form, similar to the other pages and just link it

I really have no clue as what you mean by 'form section not being flash'.

Are you saying that a page cannot contain both flash and form?

biggjoe:
I really have no clue as what you mean by 'form section not being flash'.

Are you saying that a page cannot contain both flash and form?

What am saying is that the contact form http://www.omotola.tv/comments.html is not a flash page it is html, yes you can develop forms in flash, but for simplicity it is always better to replicate the flash design in html just for the contact form

kolitos007:
What am saying is that the contact form http://www.omotola.tv/comments.html is not a flash page it is html,, 

The above line is exactly where i have a problem. Is there anything like a flash page?

For the records, flash is not a scripting language its just an object which you can put in any page of any language.

the above page you pointed out can still contain flash with that form if the designer so desires.

Yes you have got a point, you can do that in flash if you want to, I don't remember think I have done it before, but I urge you to read on using flexi and amfphp am not very good at it, but you may have to search for it.

kolitos007:
Yes you have got a point, you can do that in flash if you want to, I don't remember think I have done it before, but I urge you to read on using flexi and amfphp am not very good at it, but you may have to search for it.

im not looking for solutions on this issue, i am only politely trying to correct you.

i think you got flash all wrong.

And please can you explain to me what you are trying to correct me about because I don't understand thank you.

Hey guys, Flexbuilder to create form? lol
we dont need satchel charges to open a can of beer.

creating a form in flash is easier than u think, you will need to use the same text tool available in flash but this time, set the attribute from static text to input text

next, u give ur field a name, NOT instance name this time, but var name
look for a box in the property panel which says "var:" and issue a name of ur choice

follow the above step for every field in ur flash.

now for the button, make it a button symbol
then select it and go to the actions panel script assist view and set a getURL
tell it to send variables using any preferred one, i alway go for GET if d submit data is not sensitive.


export ur movie and run it in ur browser, if u use the get method , once u attempt submitting d form, u will realize the url change with the submitted data appended to it with &, the same way GET variable are passed across browsers.


Very funny, I have a video tutorial i made for one of my students. the tutorial addressed every and only what u just asked for.
How i wish i can locate it in my email. post ur email, so i mail it to u if i can locate it in my mail. I really cant go thru the stress of uploading a video right now.

ok thats great

[/quote][quote author=kolitos007 link=topic=287506.msg4090577#msg4090577 date=1245965162]And please can you explain to me what you are trying to correct me about because I don't understand thank you.

i got it all pointed out in my last posts, just go through them. and please, im not trying to start anything. Like a  fight i mean

The point is we are both talking of 2 different things, am just saying to the poster and not you, ok that he could just do it in html and not bother wasting time doing it in flash if he can do it in html simple, is that ok with you biggjoe?

kolitos007:
The point is we are both talking of 2 different things, am just saying to the poster and not you, ok that he could just do it in html and not bother wasting time doing it in flash if he can do it in html simple, is that ok with you biggjoe?

Now you have said it as it should be said and for that all is ok with me. my apologies if i have talked too much.

its all good man.

In anticipation for some TNA explosion here, i had gotten popcorn and a front seat view. And just then you two end the freaking pre-battle talks (that shoulda led to some cool fun-to-watch fight) with apologies? damn! C'mon bigjoe, kolitos, just knock each other in the head and spill some blood and sweat so this popcorn don't waste mehn!

Dual Core:
In anticipation for some TNA explosion here, i had gotten popcorn and a front seat view. And just then you two end the freaking pre-battle talks (that shoulda led to some cool fun-to-watch fight) with apologies? damn! C'mon bigjoe, kolitos, just knock each other in the head and spill some blood and sweat so this popcorn don't waste mehn!

Na Wahoo dual core, you just like this things, sorry to disappoint you, I don't like conflict you know

Point of correction, you can create forms in flex builder, and also process the form too in web builder, can communicate with php/mysql from there. .
works smoothly, i have done a complex flex site before, and it was nice. and no, i will not post it here. . .you guyz are just too bad!

Hahahahahahaha, dhtml its ok, but it will be nice to show us though I work with in a software development company and we have got a few action script developers here, using Flexi builder and amfphp, it is really cool wish i could show some of our work, but am not allowed.

Geez, why are you people trying to blow up the building the fix a tiny leak in the roof? Don't you know that when 2 elephants fight, it is the grass (people like me) who suffer?

Help the poster first. If you must get into a "do you know who i am?" fight fest, go to another board.

hehe I tried to help at first, but I got told off

lol, wey poster sef? very funny, he threw a bone at NL Gurus and the struggle went on with raging posts.


the struggle for who is better.
opps! someone's post is missing here,

I like this, we are Nigerians, its in hour blood to want to show off, who is better, no matter how you say it or see it we are all the same, some ask a question some tries to answer, someone tells the person for the type of answer they give, the argument goes on the poster is forgotten, it becomes a battle of words between two people who don't even need help, then another person comes on and then start to talk about why is it that this 2 guys are battling instead of helping the poster, yet this person too, as also ignored the poster and he joins in the argument, more people go on about the guys arguing and talk about how much typical Nigerians they are, but it does not end there, the poster is long forgotten and does not even bother asking for more help, he probably found the answer from another forum and not bother,

Wow the argument still drags on the topic has reached up to 50 or more post, more people have joined in the argument, but yet they ain't even bothered about the poster, we are yet to receive post from the poster saying thank you for your help,

Well this is the harsh truth and reality of the way we do things in Nigeria, I am half Nigerian the attitude I get from my fathers side who is Nigerian is totally different from my mum's, but I like it, that is what makes us who we are unique in all ways possible.

I may even have websites that I need advise on, I dare not post it on the forum, I am worried, I would get cained and slauthered and not even given a chance to then the post will go on with others arguing about there comments so why don't we give it a break and just do what we do, because we know it will never change,

The helpers, are there, give them a chance to even try to help, you chase them away no one will want to help any more, the arguers let them keep doing it, its the most interesting thing that brings me back to this forum and the oh am the best guys, it helps them build there confidence we all need some sort of way to build our confidence even if it means to make others look stupid, I once asked my Dad as a kid, we passed some area and there was one big massive house and tiny houses around that house, I asked my Dad why isn't that guy helping people around him, he said he likes everyone looking at him as the biggest man in the area, its typical, you give me your hand I help you up, and you do the same for me thats how we move up in life,

Ok enough with the rant, I have let it all out now phew,

pop cornz here, anyone cares? i'm loving the front seat view tho
Round 7!
Fight!!
muahahahaha, Fatality!

not like i'm trynna drift off topic (not like u could do anything about it if i was ), those Mortal Kombat days! those days wen we didnt need graphics cards with 1gig video memory for games to work!

well, whteva, back to topic
Flash Html Forms Fight