It's been active since monday morning. I deactivated it over the weekend then reactivated it hoping a "clean sheet" might help if I'd inadvertently affected something. Do you think deactivating and reactivating again may help, or how long should it take for the DNS to work?
I've tried Samuria's help too, trying to use the PlusNet CGI email script and whilst the test files he so kindly sent me, tell me that the mail is sent, all that happens is that my browser opens up the page (http://homepages.plus.net/cgi-bin/form) but fails to deliver the test mail to the appended recipient (me at a plusnet address).
I'm getting quite despondent here but the fact that I can't access the ccgi space of mine via my browser suggests there may some sort of problem and that it may be this that's causing these hiccups.
Thanks again for you help, I really appreciate it.
EDIT:
I've been desperately trying to sort this now to no avail, so I thought I'd try a different php script. I went direct to the source and downloaded a form file and php file from Adobe's site:
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/exchange/index.cfm?event=extensionDetail&extid=1047892So, I modified the actionscript in flash to refer to my cgi space but changed nothing else:
stop();
send_btn.onRelease = function() {
my_vars = new LoadVars();
my_vars.sender = email_box.text;
my_vars.subject = subject_box.text;
my_vars.message = message_box.text;
if (my_vars.sender != "" and my_vars.subject != "" and my_vars.message != "") {
my_vars.sendAndLoad("http://ccgi.username.plus.com/mailer.php", my_vars, "POST");
gotoAndStop(2);
} else {
error_clip.gotoAndPlay(2);
}
my_vars.onLoad = function() {
gotoAndStop(3);
};
};
email_box.onSetFocus = subject_box.onSetFocus=message_box.onSetFocus=function () {
if (error_clip._currentframe != 1) {
error_clip.gotoAndPlay(6);
}
};
Then I modified the Adobe PHP and changed nothing else but the email return path:
<?php
/* ---------------------------
php and flash contact form.
by
www.MacromediaHelp.com---------------------------
Note: most servers require that one of the emails (sender or receiver) to be an email hosted by same server,
so make sure your email (on last line of this file) is one hosted on same server.
--------------------------- */
// read the variables form the string, (this is not needed with some servers).
$subject = $_REQUEST["subject"];
$message = $_REQUEST["message"];
$sender = $_REQUEST["sender"];
// include sender IP in the message.
$full_message = $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'] . "\\n\\n" . $message;
$message= $full_message;
// remove the backslashes that normally appears when entering " or '
$message = stripslashes($message);
$subject = stripslashes($subject);
$sender = stripslashes($sender);
// add a prefix in the subject line so that you know the email was sent by online form
$subject = "Contact form ". $subject;
// send the email, make sure you replace email@yourserver.com with your email address
if(isset($message) and isset($subject) and isset($sender)){
mail("website@username.plus.com", $subject, $message, "From: $sender");
}
?>
I then uploaded the slightly modified PHP and SWF files to my space. The same ruddy problem occurs! If I test locally, it all works swell and I get the email back but if I try it online, nada. So a local SWF file will communicate fine to the external PHP but the same SWF online won't. I'm tearing my hair out here :'(.
I'm sorry for repeating myself, I'm just trying to get to the bottom of it. Is there any way a staff member could please check my CGI area to see if there's anything odd that might be causing this, maybe some kind of permissions or something?
I've come to the end of me tether now but I'm loathe to fall back on the mailto: way of doing it but feel I have no choice. Thank you to everyone who's tried to help so far.
