# \[Flash\] Idea for way to preserve url/back button functionality in flash site

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**Created:** [February 27, 2005, 3:36pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-idea-for-way-to-preserve-url-back-button-functionality-in-flash-site/81074 "2005-02-27T15:36:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![MutantSurvivor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c6cbf5/32.png) [@MutantSurvivor](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/MutantSurvivor)\
**Post date:** [February 27, 2005, 3:36pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-idea-for-way-to-preserve-url-back-button-functionality-in-flash-site/81074/1 "2005-02-27T15:36:23Z")

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Hello, I am new here and wonder if anyone can help.

[font=Geneva,Arial,sans-serif][size=2]I want to preserve the URL and back button functionality of a flash based website. [/size][/font]

[font=Geneva,Arial,sans-serif][size=2]The way I see of doing this is to have each link open a new html (or more likely php) page with the flash embedded in it. [/size][/font]

[font=Geneva,Arial,sans-serif][size=2]I want to use the same flash movie for each time but it will read in an xml file for the relevant content. [/size][/font]

[font=Geneva,Arial,sans-serif][size=2]In order to do this I would imagine I would need to send some data to the flash movie from the page and I would have thought that via the object / embed params would be the way but as far asI can tell you cannot use custom paramaters. [/size][/font]

[font=Geneva,Arial,sans-serif][size=2]I also thought that just using one php page / flash movie but with the page address after the question mark would enable the flash movie to be cached and speed up load times. [/size][/font]

[font=Geneva,Arial,sans-serif][size=2]In summary

Each link will reload a page  
Each page will be the same php page but be differentiated by the stuff after the ? (i.e. [http://mysite.net/index.php?homepage)](http://mysite.net/index.php?homepage%29)  
The php will then send that info to the flash movie which will use it to load in the appropriate xml file.Does this sound possible

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