# Help with links
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-with-links/22069
**Category:** Uncategorized
**Created:** [May 29, 2003, 8:19pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-with-links/22069 "2003-05-29T20:19:00Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
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### Author:  [@jazzman121](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/jazzman121)
#### Post date: [May 29, 2003, 8:19pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-with-links/22069/1 "2003-05-29T20:19:00Z")
this is what i wanna do… when i make website… I use variable names for each page i load… soo there is one frame… that checks what the **page\_status** variable value is… and if that value is **“page1”** it loads page1.swf… if its\*\* “page2”\*\* it loads page2.swf…
and so on…
what i wanna do is… make my website soo that… i can give direct links too specific pages… for eg… if i want i can give a direct link in html … so that… when clicked it loads the **main\_page.swf** … with the loaded swf… depending on the link i gave… for eg… i can give a link…
[www.mywebsite.com/main.swf?page\_status=page2](http://www.mywebsite.com/main.swf?page_status=page2)
soo that should direcly load page2.swf into my main\_page.swf…
how can i do this??? please help
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 29, 2003, 10:55pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-with-links/22069/2 "2003-05-29T22:55:00Z")
Hi there,
The only time Flash can read URL variables is if they are embedded in the html document which first instantiates the .swf:
```auto
<embed src="myMovie.swf?myURLVar=hello%20World">
etc...
```
If you did that, then “myURLVar” would be available to the entire .swf.
This is the “FlashVars” approach ([http://www.macromedia.com/support/flash/ts/documents/flashvars.htm](http://www.macromedia.com/support/flash/ts/documents/flashvars.htm)). This sounds to me like what you’re after.
Your html would have “main.swf?page\_status=2”. Then your main.swf would have this code:
```auto
switch (page_status) {
case "1":
this.loadMovie("page1.swf");
break;
case "2":
this.loadMovie("page2.swf");
break;
case "3":
this.loadMovie("page3.swf");
break;
etc...
} // end switch (page_status)
```
That kind of thing should work.
However, you cannot include url query strings _inside_ a .swf.
When you use mc.loadMovie(), for example, you can’t pass URL variables in the same manner, at least not as a url query string.
If you try this:
```auto
this.loadMovie("myMovie.swf?myURLVar=hello%20world");
```
you get an error, because the Flash Player can’t resolve a url query string.
On the other hand, if you use loadMovieNum (or use the global loadMovie() with \_levels) and use the “GET” or “POST” method, you can send variables to a script that can then load a .swf, but this script is not a .swf.
Also, see this thread:
[http://www.kirupaforum.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=24622](http://www.kirupaforum.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=24622)