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

[Jefferis]

On Mon, 10 Apr 2000 13:31:48 -0800, "Matt Wobensmith" 

<

mwobensmithmacromedia [dot] com

> wrote:


Thanks Matt,


I was looking at the instructions, and I was a bit confused.  I sounds 

like loading variables from the OBJECT and EMBED tags requires a text 

file to be created via a Text Variable. It then displays in a text field. 

But what I need to do is draw the variable of Member ID into the Action 

script on a button, so that the GET URL loads the variable


http://www.xyz.com/MemberID/


It sounds from your description below that the variable is the Flash 

movie itself, rather than the html page in which it is embedded and in 

which it resides.


So, if the CGI dynamically creates this page as 

http://www.xyz.com/MemberID/Flash.html


Is there a way to pull this MemberID variable from the HTML page or to 

Embed this variable in the Embed Tag without losing the link to the .swf 

itself?


Jeff



>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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