Post data from Actionscript 3 to PHP

by Sorin on 25/06/2010 in ActionScript, PHP with 1 Comment

If you need to send some data to a PHP script and don’t want to use services like Zend_AMF you can try posting that data directly to the PHP script.
With the code bellow I’ll actually send an email.

// ActionScript 3 Code
// PostToPHP.as

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package
{
        import flash.events.Event;
    import flash.events.HTTPStatusEvent;
        import flash.net.URLLoader;
    import flash.net.URLLoaderDataFormat;
    import flash.net.URLRequest;
    import flash.net.URLRequestMethod;
    import flash.net.URLVariables;

    public class PostToPHP
    {
        // url to post
        private var postToURL:String = "http://www.yourdomain.tld/post_receiver.php";

        public function PostToPHP()
        {
            // create request
            var request:URLRequest = new URLRequest( postToURL );

        // set post variables
            var requestVars:URLVariables = new URLVariables();
            requestVars.emailTo      = 'email.address@mailservice.tld';
            requestVars.subject      = 'This is a test email';
            requestVars.message = 'An this is the content of the message.';
       
            // assign variables to the request and set request method type 
            request.data     = requestVars;
            request.method = URLRequestMethod.POST;
   
            // load the request and listen for a response from the PHP script
            var urlLoader:URLLoader = new URLLoader();
            urlLoader.dataFormat = "text";
            urlLoader.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, urlLoader_handler, false, 0, true);
            urlLoader.load(request);
    }
       
    private function urlLoader_handler(e:Object):void
    {
           // the response given from the PHP script will be traced here
       trace(e.target.data);
    }

// PHP code
// post_receiver.php

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// assign POST variables and clean them
// filter_var() is available from PHP 5.2.0
$emailTo    = filter_var($_POST['emailTo'], FILTER_SANITIZE_EMAIL);
$subject    = filter_var($_POST['subject'], FILTER_SANITIZE_STRING);
$message   = filter_var($_POST['message'], FILTER_SANITIZE_STRING);

// send mail and remember function response
// boolean response
$mailSent = mail($emailTo, $subject, $message);

// the echoed response will be traced in actionscript
if($mailSent == true)
{
    echo 'mail sent';
}
else
{
    echo 'mail NOT sent';
}

Simple.

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One Comment on "Post data from Actionscript 3 to PHP"

  1. Davide Ganz says:
    25/11/2011 at 07:59

    Insightful & clear Tutorial!
    Well Done
    Many Thanks :)

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