Flash :: [CS3] Passing Variables From Query String

Passing Data With Query String
I'm trying to 'pass-through' a variable in a flash movie.

Basically I'm using flash to create a form that needs to be posted back to a server side database, using get url this is no problem.

However I want to populate the flash movie with a value that when the get url command is exectued, this value is passed back to the database.

e.g.

I have a variable called "AdvertID" it's value is "100". I know this before I play the movie, so I call the movie thus:

embed src "movie.swf?AdvertID=100" etc.

However when flash posts this data back using get url, it doesn't appear as one of the variables.

I do not want the user to see this value (however if they must I can live with it).

Do I have to declare "AdvertID" as a variable for this to work?

If I do where?

Thanks.

Passing A Variable To A Query String
I am trying to create a form in Flash that passes variables to a query string. Simple enough, but when my variables have an underscore (eg variable_one) Flash coverts the underscore to “%5F”. I noticed that it seems to convert all non letter or number characters to something else. Unfortunately I don’t have the option to change the names of the variables I am passing.

This is the code:

submit.onRelease = function () {
getURL ("http://www.actionscript.org","", "GET");
};

Has anyone encountered this? Help Please!

Passing A Query String To Flash
Here's the need:

I'm going to be making a gallery of "thumbnails" which are all a flash file dynamically loading new content in each. So a single html page will house up to 48 copies of that same swf loading a new picture in each.

There has to be a way to load a flash file with a query at the end, right (in the html source code)? Like filename.swf?id=123&thispage=123 right? If so, how do I access those variables passed to flash?

My idea was to write my standard loop (in PHP) posting a new swf in each iteration but change the query string with each so that I can load the new content.

Passing Query String From Address Bar URL Into Swf
Hi All,

Let me preface this by saying that I'm primarily a design/animation/marketing guy so this could be a stupid question with an obvious answer. However, I have been scouring the web for two days now and have yet to find any posts/tutorials which offer a solution.

Here's the challenge:

I have a flash movie that movie is contained within the same included file on every page of a site. I need some way of telling the flash which pages it's on so it can display the appropriate XML feed. Since each of my pages has a query string in the URL (i.e. thesite.com?page=1) I imagine the best way to do this is to somehow send the string into the flash movie. Once it's inside the movie I'll write a function that pairs the each string with it's corresponding XML feed (btw, if anyone has an a similar script they can post it would be a huge help to me!).

Note that because the movie is part of an include that is on ever page its parameters (such as EMBED tags) cannot be changed either.

The only solution outside of directly passing the query string from the page URL (as it appears in the address bar) to the flash would be to create some sort of Javascript in the HTML that captures the query string and then sends it along.

If anyone can help me out with this it would be GREATLY APPRECIATED.

Thank you in advance!

Passing Variable From An HTML Query String
HELP?

I am using the javascript

window.document.smoothie.SetVariable("_root.texty" , query);

in an HTML page, to pass the value in 'query' to a dynamic text box, 'texty' on the main timeline of my Flash movie.

The passing of the variable works, and can be seen on any one of these 3 pages:

http://www.runspotrun.com/test/page2.html?chewbacca
http://www.runspotrun.com/test/page2.html?hansolo
http://www.runspotrun.com/test/page2.html?obiwan

If the value of query is 'chewbacca' then what loads on the page is different than if the value is 'hansolo' and so on...

The passing of this variable works, EXCEPT - one needs to RELOAD the page to see it. When the movie/page first loads, the value doesn't appear. If it is reloaded, then the value appears. A following visit to the same page, even passing a different variable will work fine also. It's just that very first visit, the first time the movie is opened on a particular browser.

After many hours of trying to figure this out, I am at a loss. Can anyone help me with this please?

ThankS!
mark

Passing Special Characters On A Query String
Hi,

I have a project that requires to send a string variable to a swf movie using a query string in html like this:

<PARAM NAME=movie VALUE= "movie.swf?text=Vous êtes dans le Hall d'entrée.">

My problem is:
this text is read from a database using jsp and has special characters like é, è, à and other french specific ch.

I've seen the posts for external txt files using unicode, tried to save the html file as unicode, but still no results. My text field doesn't look right.

Can anyone help me? I ran out of solutions.
Thank you.

Passing Query String Var Into Flash Only Works Sometimes...?
I'm trying to pass a variable into Flash from a query string, and for the most part it works great.

flashmovie.swf?page=home

On any page other than the home page, the Flash movie should skip it's build animation and go right to a resting state. Code:

if (page != "home") {
gotoAndPlay("navigation");
} else {
play();
}

This only works as intended after visiting several pages. Lets say I arrive on the home page and the movie plays through all it's animations. Fine, great. Now I go to any other page and it should skip right to the 'navigation' keyframe - right? Wrong, the movie skips ahead only about 40 frames, and plays out the rest of the intro. All other pages afterward behave correctly as coded. And revisiting that second page also now behaves normally.

What's the deal?

Passing Accented Letters Through Query String
I want to pass the variable="tést" through the query in html,
so I urlencode it and do this:

myswf?var=t%E9st

..but all I get on the flash side is a string two letters long, the second letter beeing not readable! I'm unescaping it and still nothing...
Am I missing something or flash does not accept 'ALL' urlencoded characters...

I'am just very surprised to see this....

pitu

Passing Variable To FLVPlayback Via Query String
This seems very easy but I am stuck here....
Here's the html that I'm trying to pass the flv name to the FLV component

Attach Code

In the html
<param name="movie" value="/proxy/MC-video-component.1.swf?flvName=vod/q1_2009_mkt_story">

and in AS i have an instance of the FLVPlayback component on the stage

var flvName;

myFLVPlayback.source = "rtmp://myFMSserver.org/" + flvName +".flv";

Any help?

Query String Variables
I know I've done this before, but I can't find the file that had it.

I'm trying to simply load a variable from the URL into flash as a variable.

eg.
"http://www.mywebsite.com/index.html?page=home"
Would send Flash a variable "page" with value "home"

I remember only having to change the embed code to get this to work.

I've seen countless examples of this, but where the variable is in the source code of the page, which is not what I need. The variable must be dynamic, and therefore in the URL.

Query About Passing Variables (I Think )
Hi Everyone,
I am designing a site in flash, and its currently using quite a large preloader.
Each time a link is clicked, I open a new movie(SWF) to replace the current one.
Instead of inserting the preloader into each movie, is it possiable that when I click a link, the value of that link is kept somewhere (value being the target movie name), but firstly it loads the preloader, and that uses the frames loaded for the value of the link (ie the movie name.swf), when that is done, automatically close the preloader movie, leaving the new movie in place. (Honest, it makes sense to me..!!!).
If you need me to elaborate, please say so.
Many thank guy's and ladies out there.
Stretch

Reading Variables From The Query String?
Does anyone know how to write the code to get a Dynamic Text Box to display variables that have been passed through the query string?

Pulling Variables From The Query String
Does any one know how I would go about pulling variables from the query string (URL) and post them in a dynamic text box? My overall goal is to have an animated Flash 5 card that will display the name of the person who sent the card and the name of the person recieving the card.

Thanks

Pulling Variables From A Query String?
alright I've fidgured some things out and this is what I am currently doing.

I am attempting to load variables placed into the query sting (url) into a dynamic text field with the same variable name. Currently it is effecting the variable but it is not putting the values into the text field
Here is my code:

loadVariablesNum ("void", 0, "POST");
to = "0";
from = "0";

I have attempted sending the variables using "GET" as well as "Don't send" with the same results

the page is
http://www.familyties.com/dogDaystes...=josh&from=bob

If you remove the "to" and "from" on the query string the default value of "0" appears in each variable

What am I doing wrong?

Getting Variables From The Query String, SWFObject
I need to pass my swf a value through the query string. I can't seem to figure this out with AS3.

More specifically I need to pass a value from the HTML that embeds the swf to the movie.

Below is sampling of the HTML code. The example code below wants to create a variable named test and assign it a value of 12. How do access this variable from inside my SWF with AS3? In AS2 and earlier this variable would have been accessible from the main timeline. I can't seem to Access this from my document class, what am I missing?

PHP Code:

<param name="movie" value="MOMA_Box_Motion.swf?test=12" />

I'd also like to do this with SWFObject. The SWFObject docs show this exmaple. But again I can't seem to access these variables from the document class.

PHP Code:

<script type="text/javascript">
   var so = new SWFObject("movie.swf", "mymovie", "400", "200", "8", "#336699");
   so.addVariable("variable1", "value1");
   so.addVariable("variable2", "value2");
   so.addVariable("variable3", "value3");
   so.write("flashcontent");
</script>

Loading Variables Into Flash From A Query String....
Is it possible?

Basicaly im making an e-Card type thing. so far, what happens is a person is emailed telling them theyve got a card and to click a link. this link contains ?id=4723473218947312 where the id number is a big random one, that corrrresponds to an id number in a txt file, which contains the message to be shown. I need to tell flash what id number to look up, from that link in the email, if you see what im getting at... how can i pass this data into flash?

Variables & Button Action Via URL Query String
Hi,
I have 2 variable textbox named 'box1' and 'box2' and a button named 'enter' in Flash. When the enter button is clicked, it calls up an file. Here is my problem:

I need the user to go to a URL:
http://www.something.com/form.swf?box1=john&box2=smith ...?

How do i write the query string so that the Enter button will perform it's onClick action with the loaded variables?
Can anyone help me please? Thanks.

Calling Variables From Query String Into Flash
Hi, any help given is much appreciated

Ive got multiple html pages with the same flash file embedded, with a different query string on the end for each page

eg.
home.html, myflash.swf?flashid=home
contact.html, myflash.swf?flashid=contact
support.html, myflash.swf?flashid=support

I want my flash to listen to the query string upon loading the page, and depending on the flashid, gotoAndPlay(frame)

Ive tried numerous methods to get it to work, but its just not reading my query string...

Any thoughts?
thanks!

[F8] Dynamic Query String & Pass Variables To And Fro Php
Hi!

I have a webpage that needs to load a variable from query string and then the swf sends this variable to php to search it in databse and return respective entries.

My trouble is the page where the swf is placed in an HTML page whose URL is something like this : http://www.mysite.com/variableName=dynamicValue

Actually this is a link thats sent in an email. When clicked it loads this page. Here http://www.mysite.com/variableName= is static, but dynamicValue is a 15 letter randomly generated code.

I wanted to know is it possible to pass this dynamic value of the variable into my swf. If so, how to do that.

My second query is I wanted to send this variable from flash to a php file which will search it in a database and return related entries to flash. Now, I've done this seperately, that is, send variables to php by post method and get variables from php by get method. But I dont know how to do these two operations in one single call.

I am using Flash 8, though i'm exporting the movie to flash 6 player compatible and actionscript 2. Any help is welcome. Please let me have the feedback.

thanks

ashwin.

Pass Variables Into Flash Via Query String
I used to do this all the time to pass in simple values to Flash but with Flash 8 it doesn't seem to be working properly. I've stripped it down to it's most basic and it still doesn't seem to be working. I've got a test page here:
http://icglink.com/flashtest/

The top set uses the standard object/embed method, the left one passing in a 0, the right passing in a 1. Both use the variable named previousvisitor.

The bottom set use the same variable and value structure, but with the swfobject javascript call instead of the object/embed method.

I've got a case statement on the 5th frame that tests the incoming variable and directs the playhead to one frame label or another. The idea is that if someone has come to the site for the first time, they'll get to see a video. If not, they'll get a still frame with a "play video" button.

I'm also including a link to the FLA (version 8 remember).

http://icglink.com/flashtest/cookieTEST.fla

So does anyone have ANY idea why this isn't working correctly? I really need to get this working and it should be dead simple.

Dynamically Populating SetRGB Variables From Query String?
anyone know if it's possible to populate setRGB variables dynamically from a query string using loadvariables?

thanks,
dg

Load Query String Variables Into Flash Movie
I am trying to load a variable from an HTML query string into my flash movie to load the appropriate movieclip. However, everything I've tried to do is not working... I must be doing something wrong.

My query string in the HTML file looks like this:
<param name="movie" value="components/flash/Navi.swf?navi=home" />
<embed src="components/flash/Navi.swf?navi=home"></embed>

Now, I placed a dynamic text field (temporarily) to make sure my variable was loading- which it does; I just can't seem to use the variable the way I want to.

My goal is for the variable 'navi' holding the data 'home' to control a movieclip in my movie. So if it was "Navi.swf?navi=about" then the movieclip would goto the "About Us" section of the movie.

I tried using this Actionscript:
if(navi == home){
_root.movieclipMC.gotoAndPlay("home");
}
}

if(navi == about){
_root.movieclipMC.gotoAndPlay("about");
}
}

if(navi == home){
_root.movieclipMC.gotoAndPlay("contact");
}
}

What am I doing wrong? Thanks!

Append Variables On A Query String In HTML Tags
Hi.

Okay, I have a single navigation swf that I want to be able to use over several html pages. I want my swf to be able to react to whichever html page it is on so that dependant on page one button will always be frozen to synchronize with the page title.

The easiest way I could think of (and most browser compatible) was simply to append a variable into the tags on each html page in the way that is defined in this Macromedia technote:

technote: Different approaches to setting variables in a Flash movie

Sounds simple.

But... I followed the directions (thrice) and it no workee! Nothing appears in my cursed test textfield.

I was hoping that someone might be able to pull me into the light, or suggest any other options? Can anyone else get this to work?

Thanks.

pinK

Passing String Variables To Flash
I am passing variables in a url string from an asp page to my .swf file and reading the variables into text boxes within flash.

eg.
http://www.mywebpage/pageFlash.asp?...ameVar=François

As you can see, the variable I am using contains a special french character.

Now here is the problem. On some computers the variable is passed to flash with no problem at all and on other computers the same flash file is unable to read the variable. I have tried url encoding the variable to read %E7 and also have placed System.useCodePage=true; on my first line of actionscript, but neither works.

Does anyone know why the special character works on some computers and not on others? All the computers have IE 6 and are running Windows 2000.

MX : Passing Variables To Command String
I'm trying to design an interface that to simplify the construction of a string. Here's an example: My output (using the getURL command) needs to be in the form of:

http://fakesite.com:8080/java/submit...ng2=y&thing3=z

I'm able to define variables for x, y, and z, however I am unable to figure out how to substitute the defined values for those variables into the string when it is time to send it.

I may not be being very clear here, but does anyone have any ideas?

Thanks

Jeff Kirsch

Passing Multiple Variables In GetURL String
Is it possible to pass multiple variables in a getURL string?

I can do this getURL("javascript:doLMSSetValue('cmi.interactions .0.student_response','"+group1.getValue()+"')

where group1.getValue()is the variable. But what what I want to do is pass something like this

var qadata = doLMSSetValue('cmi.interactions.0.id', '1');
doLMSSetValue('cmi.interactions.0.type', 'choice');

and have tried

getURL("javascript:"+qadata+); and other varieties but can't quite get that to work.

Thanks.

Error 2101: The String Passed To UrlVariables.decode() Must Be Url-encoded Query String
I am trying to make a flash contact form which will submit the firstname, lastname, email and comments to an asp.net page.

I am have having the following error:

Error #2101: The String passed to URLVariables.decode() must be a URL-encoded query string containing name/value pairs

I am using the following action script code as pasted below. This action script is communicating with an asp.net file to send the email out. In the end it responds back with response=passed or failed.

I have already spent around 3 hours figuring it out.. and looking through the internet for resolution but no luck. Any help will be appreciated.

stop();
submit_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, submit);

function submit(e:MouseEvent):void
{
var variables:URLVariables = new URLVariables();
variables.firstname = firstname_txt.text;
variables.lastname = lastname_txt.text;
variables.email = email_txt.text;
variables.comments2 = comments_txt.text;

var req:URLRequest = new URLRequest(â€emailacount.aspxâ€);
req.method = URLRequestMethod.POST;
req.data = variables;

var loader:URLLoader = new URLLoader();
loader.dataFormat = URLLoaderDataFormat.VARIABLES;
loader.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, sent);
loader.addEventListener(IOErrorEvent.IO_ERROR, error);
loader.load(req);

status_txt.text = â€œSendingâ€¦â€;

}

function sent(e:Event):void
{
status_txt.text = â€œYour email has been sent.â€;
firstname_txt.text = â€œâ€;
lastname_txt.text = â€œâ€;
email_txt.text = â€œâ€;
comments_txt.text = â€œâ€;
}

function error(e:IOErrorEvent):void
{
status_txt.text = â€œThere was an error. Please try again later.â€;
}

and the following asp.net code:

<%@ Page Language="VB" %>
<%@ Import Namespace="System.Net.Mail" %>
<script language="VB" runat="server">
Sub Page_Load(Sender As Object, E As EventArgs)
Try
Dim fromEmailAddress = "paul@lancierinc.com"
Dim toEmailAddress = "rizwandar@gmail.com"

Dim firstName = Request.QueryString("firstname_txt")
Dim lastName = Request.QueryString("lastname_txt")
Dim comments = Request.QueryString("comments_txt")
Dim userEmail = Request.QueryString("email_txt")

'create the mail message
Dim mail As New MailMessage()

'set the addresses
mail.From = New MailAddress(fromEmailAddress)
mail.To.Add(toEmailAddress)

'set the content
mail.Subject = "Email from" & firstName & " " & lastName
mail.IsBodyHtml = True
Dim strBody As String = "<b>Email from</b>" & " " & firstName & " " & lastName & "<br><b>Email Address:</b> " & userEmail & "<br><b>Comments:</b> " & comments
mail.Body = strBody

'send the message
Dim smtp As New SmtpClient("mail.lancierinc.com")
smtp.Send(mail)
Dim urltoencodestring2 = "response=passed&err=0"
'Response.Write(urltoencodestring2)

Catch smtpEx As SmtpException
'A problem occurred when sending the email message
'ClientScript.RegisterStartupScript(Me.GetType(), "OhCrap", String.Format("alert('There was a problem in sending the email: {0}');", smtpEx.Message.Replace("'", "'")), True)
Response.Write(smtpEx.Message)
Dim urltoencodestring = "response=failed&err=1"
'Response.Write(urltoencodestring)

Catch generalEx As Exception
'Some other problem occurred
'ClientScript.RegisterStartupScript(Me.GetType(), "OhCrap", String.Format("alert('There was a general problem: {0}');", generalEx.Message.Replace("'", "'")), True)
Dim urltoencodestring3 = "response=failed&err=1"
'Response.Write(urltoencodestring3)
End Try
End Sub
</script>

String Passed To URLVariables.decode() Must Be A URL-encoded Query String...
I really don't understand why this won't work? I've made a test which sends some POST data to a script on my page which works fine. But why does not this work?

Code:
var mapsize = _cmap.fieldx.toString(16) + _cmap.fieldy.toString(16);
var names = "Zomis_AI6";
var description = "descr";
var result = "gameresult";
var upldata: String = "mapsize="+mapsize+"&names="+names+"&description="+description+"&result="+result;
trace(upldata);
var variables:URLVariables = new URLVariables(upldata);
var request2:URLRequest = new URLRequest();
request2.url = "http://www.zomis.net/record.php";
request2.method = URLRequestMethod.POST;
request2.data = variables;
var loader2:URLLoader = new URLLoader();
loader2.dataFormat = URLLoaderDataFormat.VARIABLES;
loader2.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, uploadcomplete);
try {
loader2.load(request2);
trace("Loaded");
}
catch (error:Error) {
trace("Unable to load URL");
}
Tracing gets:

Code:
mapsize=1010&names=Zomis_AI6&description=descr&result=gameresult
Loaded
Error: Error #2101: The String passed to URLVariables.decode() must be a URL-encoded query string containing name/value pairs.
at Error$/throwError()
at flash.net::URLVariables/decode()
at flash.net::URLVariables$iinit()
at flash.net::URLLoader/flash.net:URLLoader::onComplete()

Query String
in the src parameter in my html file I've got

http://www.myDomain.com/myMovie.swf?var=val

What is the best way to extract the values in this query string...I do have a method, but it is longer than i think it needs to be...any ideas?

Query String
How to read Query String for example:
test.swf?test=1&id=23&line=23,
how to read the values of test, id and line inside the flash move in script?

Query String
I want to pass variables into a flash movie using a query string... How can I do it?

i.e myPage.htm?id=4

I want to be able to get the id variable from the query string into flash

String Query
how can i change the font color using string query?
so other people can use the file with their own text and font color.

sample:
myflash.swf?text=Hello World!&fontcolor=0xFF0000

i also want to load a pic using string query,
sample
myflash.swf?text=Hello World!&fontcolor=0xFF0000&image=mypic

thanks, hope you can help me.

How To Get The Query String?
Can somebody tell me how to get the query string? this._url always returns the value at compile time, which of course is my local file:///....myMovie.swf. I'd love to get everything after the question mark, e.g.

mydomain.com?test=test

Any ideas?

<edit>I know that you have to try this from a webserver, in which case it does the same thing, except http://... rather than file:///...</edit>

<edit>Is the only way to do this via javascript?</edit>

URL Query String
How can I get the document URL and query into a variable in actionscript?

I tired using the method below, but this does not work in IE.
http://actionscript.org/forums/showthread.php3?p=561688

Here is an example you can try in both Firefox and IE.
http://hombrefeo.com/fla/?foo1=bar1&foo2=bar2

AS2:: String Query
I have a string that looks something like this:

TestString - "1,0,0,0,0,0,1,0"

I need to create some sort of loop (I think) to search though the string and look to see if it contains any 1's.

How was I go about this?

Any help would be great thanks.

Query String ?
a client is asking me for this:
is this possible?

We would like to present our visitor with a different scene within the
movie depending on the location. For example:

http://www.xxx.com/links.asp?cat=52&Dest=Malta

Would load a scene with a backround picture of Malta

http://www.xxx.com/links.asp?cat=44&Dest=Greece

Would load a scene with a backround picture of Greece

The image file is located in the root and is called greece.jpg

If no picture is found then a default picture is displayed.

In/Out Query String
I am working on parsing a query string from an html doc to flash. It comes into flash but won't come back out to the link I have. I don't know if what I'm trying to do is possible or if I need to use another method. I can't server side .

Thank you

here are the files : http://www.joshspoon.com/js_queryString.rar

Get A URL Query String ID
Is it possible to request a url query string ID in flash mx?

Query String With %D8
Dear everybody

I have changed from Flash 5 to Flash MX. In Flash 5 it was possible to call a flash movie with a query string containing the danish letters æ, ø and å, which all have numbers beyond 127.

The same query strings write nonsense in my flash movie text fields.

I have also tried to use FlashVars as documented on

http://www.macromedia.com/flash/ts/...s/flashvars.htm

but it gives the same error.

Have I forgotten something? How can I transfer letters like %D8 to the flash 6 player?

Torben

Pulling From A Query String
alright I've fidgured some things out and this is what I am currently doing.

I am attempting to load variables placed into the query sting (url) into a dynamic text field with the same variable name. Currently it is effecting the variable but it is not putting the values into the text field
Here is my code:

loadVariablesNum ("void", 0, "POST");
to = "0";
from = "0";

I have attempted sending the variables using "GET" as well as "Don't send" with the same results

the page is
http://www.familyties.com/dogDaystes...=josh&from=bob

If you remove the "to" and "from" on the query string the default value of "0" appears in each variable

What am I doing wrong?

Sending Query String To ASP
I've tried to send a query string to an ASP page using loadVariablesNum as belows:

loadVariablesNum ("http://www.domain.com/test.asp?type=1", 0, "GET");

But, I can only see that Request("type") from ASP return null value. What's is the problem?

Thank you for your help.

Sending Query String
Hi all!!

I am using Flash 5.. doing a CD presentation in flash projector or exe..

on click of a link I want to send a query string:

pagename.html?Firstname=Joe

but when it opens the page I am not getting "?Firstname=Joe" in the addressbar of the browser..

pls help..

Load Swf Into Swf (specifying In Query String)
Hi I have the following problem (I am not too experiences with flash AS, but trying to learn).

Basically I have the following model:

player.swf (interface that looks like winamp for instance)
song01.swf (swf with imported mp3)

What ends up happening is song01.swf is loaded into player swf. The way it works right now is I have to hardcode the name of the song to load into each player.swf. But what I'd like to do is to specity which song I want to add in a query string and player.swf will pick it up. For instance:

www.mysite.dom/player.php?song=song01.swf

then player.swf in player.php will pick up the variable song01.swf and laod it into itself.

Can anyone give a quick hint? Thanks much guys.

And lastly, I am doing it all in Flash 5.

Vladislav Kulchitski