Atomz search tutorial problem

programming flash
1

I am trying to use the atomz search engine tutorial to add a search field within my flash movie.

When I upload the file and test, it does not connect to the atomz search engine and shows a ‘Page not found’ error.

Also, when this happens the url shown in the address box is as if a link is trying to be made to a page on my site instead of the atomz site.

The actionscript as shown in the tute is (this is attached to the ‘GO’ button within the movie):

on (release, keyPress “<Enter>”) {
id = “sp1002205b”;
address = “http://search.atomz.com/search/?sp-advanced=1&sp-q="+url+"&B1=search&sp-a="+id+"&sp-w-control=1;”;
getURL(address);
}

I have checked my id is correct and cannot see what I’m doing wrong (the downside of being an AS newbie!)

Hope this makes some sense - I’m stumped!

2

Hey elmo,
Your ID seems to be too short. Make sure you are getting the series of characters before the hyphen as well. For example, in the tutorial, the ID was about this long:

00040c2f-sp00000000

You only seem to have the latter portion used. That maybe why Atomz is having difficulties in tracking your account with your search.

Cheers!
Kirupa :stuck_out_tongue:

3

This is a sample url from one of my searches. I can’t see any extra characters I might use.

search.atomz.com/search/?sp-q=office&sp-a=sp1002205b&sp-f=ISO-8859-1