Email sign up form inside banner

[Casperlh]

Hello everyone!

Can anyone give me some advice creating an interactive web banner with the possibility to type in your email and submit it? How do i put in the form? Do you know any good tutorials with something like this?

Kind regards

Casper

[kglad]

submit it where?

do you have a server that will process the email address?

[Casperlh]

Yes, thats the idea. Or an email system for instance.

[kglad]

you can use the urlloader class to send data to your server for processing.

or, if you trust the user to have a default email program designated (significantly many don't), you can use navigateToURL.

[Casperlh]

Do you know any tutorials about this?

[kglad]

actionscript 3 - Sending and receiving data from Flash AS3 to PHP - Stack Overflow

[rezun8]

i would think he should be using Animate to build out banners and not AS3

[kglad]

if you mean html5/canvas, he should lookup ajax.

[rezun8]

I understand your trying to capture data by having a user submit an email address inside the banner but I think you will find MANY people will be reluctant to do so. It's hard enough to get click conversion via a banner. I personally would ask if its better to have the user click thru to a specified landing page and have the process take place there instead of on a banner.

I would also wonder about security settings in processing the email in a banner and transmitting data that way, KGlad wouldnt they also need a crossdomain policy to do this?