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Dynamic eCard with Flash and PHP

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In a new, empty Flash file, you’ll want to set up two things:

  1. A button that the user will click to send the data to the page containing the eCard. For the purposes of this animation and the getURL method used, this absolutely must be a button type symbol.
  2. New text fields, set to type Input Text. Create as many as you need, but remember that for each one you’ll have to pass a variable. My eCard has a place to display the sender name, a place to display the recipient name, and a place to display a message from the sender, so I have three input text fields. You may have more or less; you may want to remove the sender name from the eCard, or you may want to add an extra greeting or closing.
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