Multipurpose Send Mail Form Builder

Advance using

MSMF can be used with some advance cases which are described below.

• Access Flex component in MSMF

When you want to change properties of Flex component in MSMF which is not supported in XML file, you can using method

<id of MSMF instance>.getObject(<name of Flex component in MSMF instance>

For example, you can change background color of TextInput (which could not be declared in XML file)

<object>    <type>TextInput</type>    <name>txtYourEmail</name>    ... </object>

with following code (assume myDynamicContactForm is id of MSMF component instance):

myDynamicContactForm.getObject("txtYourEmail").setStyle("backgroundColor","Green");

And the result

• Send a copy of mail to customer

There are some components which content can be sent to PHP script using POST method. The name of these variables corresponding to <name> property of components which are declared in XML file.

For example, assume that your MSMF is used for Contact form. It means it should have TextInput component which customer will input his/her email.

<object>    <type>TextInput</type>    <name>txtYourEmail</name>    ... </object>

Now you edit PHP script mail_content.php on PHP Server as following

$mail_CC =  $_POST['txtYourEmail'];

So each time customer press Send button on your MSMF, one mail will be sent to you (with email address $mail_to in mail_content.php) and CC to your customer email. See this in Example4: Send a copy of mail to customer

• Reformat mail content

As said above, because some component values are POSTed to PHP script (corresponding to name property), they can be used to reformat mail content by replacing default value of $mail_message_html and $mail_message_plaintext

Following is list of components which will be POSTed to PHP script

Component	Value type	Meaning
TextInput	String	Text content
TextArea	String
RichTextEditor	String	HTML text content
CheckBox	Boolean	"true"/"false"
RadioButton	Boolean
ComboBox	String	Text string of current selected item
RadioButtonGroup	String	Text string of current selected RadioButton item

For more details, refer to Example4: Send a copy of mail to customer

• Use for other purposes

Using POSTed value of components, you can use it for other purpose with PHP programing (send mail is only one of these). For example, checking account, count result from survey, update database...

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