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Dave
Dave

Reputation: 153

Getting the query string from a browser link

How can I get the query string value from a browser sting into my flash movie?

For example, the link is www.blah.com/index.html?name=John. The html page loads a flash movie, and I would like the flash movie to be able to access the variable name=John.

Is this possible?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 919

Answers (2)

Krasimir
Krasimir

Reputation: 13529

I'll suggest to read the variables via javascript or some server side language like PHP and send them to the swf like that:

function getURLParameter(name) {
    return decodeURI(
        (RegExp(name + '=' + '(.+?)(&|$)').exec(location.search)||[,null])[1]
    );
}

"yourflashfile.swf?variable1=" + getURLParameter("parameter1") + "&variabl2=" + getURLParameter("parameter2")

Then in ActionScript use:

var variable1:String = loaderInfo.parameters.variable1 || "";

Upvotes: 0

Billy
Billy

Reputation: 11

Assuming ActionScript 3.

Checkout:Get current url to Flash swf using an External Interface call (circle cube).

Pretty much it seems to be: ExternalInterface.call(“window.location.href.toString”);

Then I guess you can get what you need by finding from the string.

Or you can use FlashVars and pass what you need to:http://blogs.adobe.com/pdehaan/2006/07/using_flashvars_with_actionscr.html

In the embed tag it's: FlashVars="one=1&two=2" and param: <param name="FlashVars" value="one=1&two=2" />

Upvotes: 1

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