Comments on: Get current url to Flash swf using an External Interface call

By: Hieu

Hieu — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 09:41:30 +0000

Thanks a lot for sharing.

By: atasözleri

atasözleri — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 10:43:52 +0000

You are perfect!

I am too many time finding it, very nice and wonderful working.

Thanks again!

By: MicroAngelo

MicroAngelo — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 07:39:23 +0000

Hi,

I don't really like to require users of my swf's to have to add and javascript, so instead I do this entirely in actionscript:

ExternalInterface.call("eval","document.location.href");

You have to use "eval" (evaluate) to work across all browsers (and "document.location" is safer than "window.location" in case you're in a frameset).

HTH,

MicroAngelo

By: Og2t

Og2t — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 14:05:13 +0000

Thanks for the solution, that’s what I was looking for.

By: Evan Mullins

Evan Mullins — Wed, 13 May 2009 17:54:03 +0000

This article claims to get the url of the page to the swf/flash. Not the url of the swf. You can find the url of the swf through other ways… try http://www.actionscript.org/forums/showthread.php3?p=816010 for starts

By: Keith

Keith — Wed, 13 May 2009 16:57:41 +0000

This page claims to provide the URL to the SWF but it does not. The example provided, and all of the alternative examples in the comments, provide the URL to the PAGE containing the SWF.

By: Evan Mullins

Evan Mullins — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 16:56:38 +0000

Actually, it should be != rather than ==, and remember that variable names are caSe seNseTive, so your QStr and Qstr are not the same things.

this worked for me:

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function geturlhttp() {
//var urlPath = ExternalInterface.call("window.location.href.tostring");
urlPath = "http://www.adrian.com/adrian.html?test=qs";
//trace (urlpath)

var QStr:String = "";
if (urlPath.indexOf("?") != -1) {
QStr = urlPath.substr(urlPath.indexOf("?"), urlPath.length );
trace(QStr);
}

getURL("http://www.adrian.com/adrian.html" + QStr , "_self");

}

By: Adrian

Adrian — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 05:34:09 +0000

I correct the codes aand the issue is still existing.

I am still getting “undefined”. I also noticed that the code is working if I will assign a fixed URL value for the UrlPath variable.

By: Evan Mullins

Evan Mullins — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 14:46:46 +0000

@Adrian – this line is most likely giving you trouble:
if (urlPath.indexOf(”?”) -1)
should it read:
if (urlPath.indexOf(”?”) == -1) ?
let me know if that does it. happy scripting.

By: Adrian

Adrian — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 08:34:09 +0000

I tried to use your code below but it is not working in my end.

The return value is “undefined”.

I am currently experimenting on how can I get the querystring of the current URL and append it in the url in of my getURL function.

Below is a sample of my code.

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import flash.external.*;

function geturlhttp()
{
//will contain the Current URL
var urlPath = ExternalInterface.call(“window.location.href.tostring”);

//trace (urlpath)
// result is undefined
//get current URL of the site
var QStr:String;
Qstr = “”;
if (urlPath.indexOf(“?”) -1)
{
Qstr = urlPath.substr(urlPath.indexOf(“?”), urlPath.length );
}

getURL(“http://www.adrian.com/adrian.html” + Qstr , “_self”);

}

_root.LearnD.onRealease = function()

{
geturlhttp();
};

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Whenever I click the LearnD button , I am redirected to this page.

http://www.adrian.com/adrian.htmlundefined