Re: FLASH: Passing a CGI variable to a GET URL - possible? {URGENT}

[Matt Wobensmith]

Jefferis wrote:


>The CGI creates the page based upon the information of the referring page 

>[ the page the url call came from]. 

>

>Now I need to know if that variable of MemberID can be passed to and 

>created in a Flash .swf dynamically...



The easiest way to pass these vars to the Flash movie is in the OBJECT and EMBED tags. You can pass them via a "query string" in the HTML where the SWF is called in:


<PARAM NAME=movie VALUE="myMovie.swf?memberID=123456789>


<EMBED src="myMovie.swf??memberID=123456789>



This is documented in a TechNote:

 

Different approaches to setting variables in a Flash movie

TN #14253

http://www.macromedia.com/support/flash/ts/documents/set_variables.htm


This would be written into the HTML created by your CGI script.



Matt



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Matt Wobensmith

Macromedia Tech Support

Flash Team Lead



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