Question

Heyas. I have an flash app that I’m working on that can be embedded on other websites (like YouTube videos), but we want to know what website the user is viewing the site on. Is there any way to tell what site the app is embedded on that the user is viewing on?

The original app is written in flash/actionscript and php running on the server, if that helps. Thanks.

Answer 1

You can simply retrieve the HTTP referrer header via php, store it somewhere and than serve your flash content…

 <?php

 // served from  http://yoursite.net/your_flash.php


 //read the referer header
 $referer_url = (isset($_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']))?  $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'] : ""; 
 //store it somewhere...

 //read the swf file
 $swf=file_get_contents('flash_app.swf');
 //spit the flash content out with the proper header
 header('Content-type: application/x-shockwave-flash');
 echo $swf;
 ?>

Embed code, to be pasted by third party websites in their HTML:

<object width="550" height="400">
 <embed src="http://yoursite.net/your_flash.php" width="550" height="400">
 </embed>
</object>