# \[fmx\] request var querystring

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**Created:** [April 18, 2005, 6:19pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/fmx-request-var-querystring/144948 "2005-04-18T18:19:35Z")\
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**Author:** ![jakepeg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8dc957/32.png) [@jakepeg](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/jakepeg)\
**Post date:** [April 18, 2005, 6:19pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/fmx-request-var-querystring/144948/1 "2005-04-18T18:19:35Z")

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want to put a link in webpage to open a popup containing my swf file.

the link in the html is help.html?xmlfilename=wizcontrol\_en

and then to parse the variable - xmlfilename

helpContents.load(xmlfilename + “.xml”);

the question is how do I get the xmlfilename from the link to the load xml method?