There are a few things wrong with your form...
You have the id="Email" on the FormItem - it should be on the TextInput.
The name of your form component is ContactForms.mxml but you try to
instantiate it with <forms:ContactForm id="myContactForm"/> (Note
ContactForms and ContactForm is different).
You cannot set properties of a variable inside a CDATA block. You must
do it in a function (Which is inside the CDATA block). eg.
private function sendMyData():void
{
var obj:Object = new Object();
obj.Name = Name.text;
obj.Email = Email.text;
obj.Message = Message.text;
myContactService.send(obj);
}
and change the button mxml to
<mx:Button label="Contact Us" fontSize="16" click="sendMyData()"/>
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "brucewhealton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> 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
>
