FLASH: email to asp to database to flash question

[larry armstrong]

I have a question about asp + flash.

Say you are sent an email with a url to an asp page which includes a 

reference to a database entry (ie www.myurl.com/myasp.asp?myvariable). You 

click on this and it takes you to a flash movie which loads the database 

entry and you see a message from the database.


I think I'm missing something here. I know how to get variables from an asp 

page using the load variables command, but to do this I have to ask for them 

from the flash movie.


I also know how to have an asp get info from a url (ie 

www.myurl.com/myasp.asp?myvariable) and do something with it.


What I don't get is how Flash gets the information in this case. If I use 

load variables, it will ask an asp page for variables that it won't have 

because the asp page has to get the variables from the email url, and not 

from the flash query. I don't want to use session variables because they 

slow things down.


If you are taken to the asp page first, I can build the variable into the 

url when I launch the flash movie, but to my knowledge I can't pull 

variables from the url of the page I am on in Flash (I can't pull the 

content of the location bar in Flash).


I hope my question makes sense to someone. It seems like I am missing some 

simple piece of information that will make it all clear. Any help would be 

greatly appreciated to get me over this frustrating hurdle.

Thanks,

Larry Armstrong

Creative Visual Images

www.cvimages.com


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