jtang.d2g.com

[J Tang]

this site is incomplete, it's just a personal web page .. but open to criticism

http://jtang.d2g.com

i've used the guestbook from this website, and works great .. i've made just a few tiny modifications to it.

Also, i've noticed that when i export the animation in flash, the tabbing from one field to another in the forms work in the .swf .. but once i load the .html file that's got the .swf embedded, the tabbing doesn't work. Anyone with experience with this?

the mail form is not working either, not sure why. it uses a PHP script. and i have this website hosted on my computer running WinXP with IIS.

feel free to sign the guestbook as well.

[Flash-db]

I liked the top graphic and the effect you had going on their.  The guestbook seemed like it timed out when I tried to sign it.  Other then that looks like it just needs to be finished off.

The Mail script not working is due to the fact that your running this on your own computer.  Try going into the PHP.ini file (usually located in the windows directory) - or you can just do a search for the file php.ini and trying the following changes.

(Locate this part in that file - or do a search in that file for SMTP).

[mail function]
; For Win32 only.
SMTP = localhost

; For Win32 only.
sendmail_from = me@localhost.com

Change this to:
------------------
[mail function]
; For Win32 only.
SMTP = mail.yourISP.com

; For Win32 only.
sendmail_from = yourName@atYoursite.com

-----------------
Right after where it says SMTP - change that to the mail server that your ISP uses - this is the same SMTP server that you have specified in your Outlook settings.  Then change the sendmail_from line to your email address you want to use.

That may or may not work.  Sometimes IIS is a little weird.  You might want to try downloading the latest Apache Web server.   It's much easier to work with and use then IIS - even on windows.

[J Tang]

i've actually set the PHP.ini file already with those settings changed .. may there be some other reasons (other than IIS sucks) ?

i might give Apache a try .. but the reason why i didn't use it b4 was because it didn't have a GUI.

[Flash-db]

I'm not the best with setting up the mail feature in this fashion - but you might also want to give something like this a try, although it probably won't make a difference.

<?php
error_reporting (E_ALL);

$retval = ini_set("SMTP", "mail.myISP.com");
if (!$retval) { print "Could not set SMTP!<br>\n"; }

$retval = ini_set("sendmail_from", "youName@YourAddr.com");
if (!$retval) { print "Could not set sendmail_from!<br>\n"; }

.....  Rest of script ...  ?>

This basically just specify's those changes that where made to the ini file again - but inside the script instead of in the actual file.  

I had to use something like this on one IIS server - but that was for a different reason.  

[J Tang]

I've actually switched over to Apache, and the hosting is fine .. now the problem is PHP won't work .. i've read all over the internet and tried all sorts of things, but it just refuses to work .. i'm just all out of ideas ..

[Flash-db]

The Install.txt file that comes with PHP usually answers all of these questions, and is the best reference to use when installing.  I'm sure you've read over it already - but it does go into quite a bit of detail.  

[Flash-db]

Are you using the CGI binary method or the Apache Module Method.

[J Tang]

i've actually tried both, and other methods posted on the web that are similar to the ones in the install.txt file .. maybe we should email about this matter instead of posting it in threads  

jtang@rogers.com

and thanx for the comments on the site, hope there's other people that say something too ..