Question

I have a url like this

www.website.com?fname=Peter

and I have a Dynamic Text field as fnameurl in my Flash movie and want to show Peter in the Dynamic Text field once its opened on a browser. How can I grab the url Parameters and display it on the browser?

Thanks

Answer 1

The most straight forward way would be to use the FlashVars parameter. It is defined via an HTML param tag like this:

<param name='flashvars' value='name=value&amp;name2=value2' />

The value must be formatted as a URL query string. The indiviual key/value pairs will be made available in the root of the SWF movie. In AS2 you can simply access them using _root:

_root.name
_root.name2

In AS3 these values are available via LoaderInfo.parameters:

root.loaderInfo.parameters.name
root.loaderInfo.parameters.name2

Long story short, you could do it like this in PHP:

<param name='flashvars' value='fname=<?php echo urlencode($_GET['fname']); ?>' />

and then in AS:

fnameurl.text = _root.fname;

// or

fnameurl.text = root.loaderInfo.parameters.fname;