Flash - Reservation/Appointment form - with AutoResponse

Is this form easy to customize?

It depends on how extensive you want to change it. You don’t have to be an actionscript guru to use it in an existing project, you will need to have Flash 8 or higher, and a program that allows you to edit PHP so you can place your email address in the PHP file.

Can I add additional radio buttons? checkboxes? comboBoxes?

Yes, instructiosn are included in the Help file.

How can I customize the automatic response message?

Step-by-step instructions are included in the helpfile.

Can I change the appearance of the radio buttons, checkboxes, and combobox?

Yes

When I click the “submit” button, the status message just says “sending…”

Check that the PHP file and the swf are in the same folder/directory on your server, and that you have not renamed the PHP file. Also, check that you have not deleted the ending quotation mark [“] and semi colon[;] after the email address you added in the PHP file.

It says my message was sent successfully, but I didnt receive an email.

Check that you’ve spelled your email address correctly in the PHP file. Check your spam folder (if you’ve edited the body of the email).

The Error message says “Message could not be sent at this time”.

Check that your server supports PHP and that you haven’t made any syntax errors in the PHP file.

“I dragged and dropped the form into an existing flash template and the components are not functioning properly”

“The calendar is not working”

In your flash template’s library, import the components being used in the form (radiobutton, combobox, checkbox). If that does not work, try adding this snippet to the contact form movie itself:

this._lockroot = true;

Can I use this form as an appointment scheduler that will disable dates that have already been chosen?

Unfortunately, the form was not created to store or save entries. It can be customized to function that way, but out of the box, it does not work like that.

Does this form support foreign characters?

Depending on the foreign character set you want to use, please follow these instructions:

Open up the main .fla and select the dynamic text fields on the stage where you’d like for the form to accept foreign characters. Open the properties panel. Locate and click the button labeled “Embed” to open the Character Embedding module. You can either select a set of characters to embed in to each from the list or manually type in the characters that you’d like the form to accept into the field below the sentence that says “Include these characters:” When you’ve finished making either your selection or typing your characters in, click the OK button.

Next, open up the php file and add this to the mail headers section:

$mail_headers .= “Content-type: text/html; charset=UTF-8”;

(depending on the character set you are trying to use, you may also have to use this one:

$mail_headers .= “Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1”;

)

How do I modify the number of guests?

Instructions for modifying the list component are the help file.