minasmir

Flash IS accsessible to anyone..it is a free download!The main advantage to flash that I think will only make it more and more popular as more and more people get faster connection is this:When you create an application for the web or for windows (linux, ect) you have three main layers. 1)Presentation layer 2)Application Layler 3) Data layer.Let us say that I have a guest book. I can view the guestbook, and I can post to the guestbook. As the owner, I can edit the guestbook.When I click on the veiw guestbook button, the application layer goes to the data layer, pulls up the data, parses it and then sends it to the presentaion layer for display. Same thing happens when I add an entry. Presentation, Application, Data, Application, Presentation. Each of these is a call to the server. In flash, my presentation layer and my application layer are contained in one single flash file. Once it loads, it is loaded and all of the application calls are run from the client side rather than the server.

There are many ways to do this. All of them involve some coding to be done. The easiest way would be to create an application using html form tags, then post the form to the users default mail client. They then send the text to you via an email. This only works if your user has a "real" email account (got to be done through outlook, netscape, thunderbird ect) Another way that this can be accomplished is to post the data to a php script that then mails the data to you. You can download a flash extension that includes a simple php script (this is the way I do) or, you can post to a similar file. I am not at home right now, but here is a link to a php script that will do just that. PHP Mailer Or try Macromedia for the flash extension/php script there. Of course, if you have a host that can use Cold Fusion, just use the CFMail tags (most hosts have php though, so this is the best way to go) **UPDATE** Did a bit of browsing last night. Here is the website of the really cool dude who made the flash for the emailer Black Blog It is in spainish, though english is a bit farther down. He has a single zip file that contains everything--even a pdf that explains the php script to handle the mailing.