Getting variable from URL

programming flash
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I have this sliding gallery swf that loads the thumbs from a xml file. But I would like it to load a different xml file depending on a variable in the browser URL. For example if viewpics.php?category=cars, I want the swf to load cars.xml

Thanks for any help :b:

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Ok man, Iā€™m a noob but Iā€™m gonna try to help here. One way I found was to parse that string since I canā€™t find a way to query it(like in asp). myString.substring(from, to); may allow you to grab that ā€˜carsā€™ string and concatenate it into your load swf command. Take a look here for the details http://www.macromedia.com/support/flash/action_scripts/actionscript_dictionary/actionscript_dictionary698.html From would obviously be where the = sign is and to would be string.length I hope this helps, let me know if you find a better way.

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Hey Justin, thanks for the reply. I was browsing around and found this info:
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the easiest way would be to use ASP or PHP and pass the variables by appending it to the end of the url like this:

http://www.domain.com/page.asp?frame=15

then you would put this code at the top of your ASP page:

<%
dim frame
frame=Request.QueryString(ā€œframeā€)
%>

then you would pass the variable and value to the SWF in the object and embed tagsā€¦

you would just put the below code after the ā€œ.swfā€ in the object parameter(<param>) and in the embed part as wellā€¦

?frame=<%= frame %>

example:

<param name=ā€œmovieā€ value=ā€œmovie.swf?frame=<%= frame %>ā€>

then you would just reference the variable by using ā€œ_root.frameā€ and the value of 15 will be passed to the movieā€¦

ā€¦

I tried it and it works great, pretty easy to do.

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Cool Thanks! Iā€™m pretty good with ASP, just never passed anything from ASP to flash. Iā€™ll keep this one in my list of tools.