Daniel

I have a problem though. I cannot get the myName and myText fields to fill
The demo works fine but when place the swf from the download on my sever to test these two fields do not fill. the url and params fills fine.

Do you know any reason why this might be I have tried but have not worked it out?

Cheers Ricky

@Alex’s question “Does it restrict me from using ANY method to access all of my querystring parameters beyond the first?”

@Alex re: Example: http://www.mysite.com/mymovie.swf?name=myname&playall=no
Are you serving swf files in the browser? If so I understand the confusion around using swfobject to embed the file. There are ways to get the full path to the swf and extract the params at the end of the swf path… Permadi’s example and many more

Step 1: I copied your code example into flash, and manually removed all of the line numbers that appeared on each even numbered space.

Step 2: I used the guideline of your example and imported flash.external.* on the first line of the first frame of my project. however, it seems that flash cs3 doesn’t like that, and i had to move that import line into the first line of the .as file, or else it would complain about not being able to use ExternalInterface.

Step 3: i removed some more of the formatting errors that occurred as a result of copying and pasting the code (it didnt recognize the greater and less than symbols properly, so i converted them by hand)

ok so all of that was really no big deal in the grand scheme of things, because after doing that the movie compiles with no flaws. BUT… i notice that the variables are still not being read at all. So i reviewed the instructions again.. and i realized my mistake: Thrown in at the end of the article, just before the actual code is the sentence “I use the new swf object 2 to embed the swf. Go get it here:”

now I start to think to myself, “wait, the swf is embedded with some form of container? what is the purpose of doing all of this if i’m going to have to embed the swf into a page anyhow?”. Then to my dismay as I read through the user comments, all the way down at the bottom i see the comment that was left by Ryan Mac, just before mine. Well… I can get over the frustration of the wasted time, thats not the issue, but the whole experience of trying to solve this problem, which landed me at this web site, and countless others before, and I’m sure countless more to come in search of the solution leaves me with 2 underlying questions and I would really appreciate it if someone could help me out here.

Question 1: I don’t embed my swf files at all, they are linked to directly, and I would prefer to keep it that way. When i pass a query string into an swf file, the first argument can be read very directly with no problems. Example: http://www.mysite.com/mymovie.swf?name=myname&playall=no
I can access the myname parameter just by saying:
myvar = myname;
that works with no problems every time, but i can never access the second parameter “playall”.
thats what lead me to this site… does ANYONE know how i can access all of the variables in the query string without embedding my object?

and question #2: What is the purpose of this script? I don’t understand why anyone would go through the trouble of making the parameters of the querystring itself accessible if you still have to embed the object into an html.

Is there something that I’m missing that makes it a bad idea to link to your swf files directly rather than embedding them into an html? Does it restrict me from using ANY method to access all of my querystring parameters beyond the first?

any answers to these questions would be extremely helpful, thanks in advance.

Just to let everyone know…please dont use this if you arent using swfobject.
It doesnt work. Dont even waist your time. Its been two long hours. Two very long hours.
Ramble ramble ramble…

Thanks.

A real testing scenario would be ideal: to see what browser supports this and any problems they have and so forth.
I’ve heard many reports, but none are all encompassing… I know it works in firefox and IE7, i’ve heard it works in IE6, safari and opera, but haven’t personally tested it. It seems to work for some people and not for others, so I’m guessing it just takes some troubleshooting…
I did have some trouble in IE at first, but then after I used swfobject it worked just fine, so that may be the problem in safari?
Please let us know what you come up with!

file:///Library/WebServer/Documents/mysite/getURLParams3.html?myName=harry&myText=knuckles

through my browser this works fine. if i look at it :

http://127.0.0.1/mysite/getURLParams3.html?myName= harry&myText=knuckles

this does not work in safari. however, both opera and firefox have no complaints.

maybe a swfobject / safari issue? but safari is OK with it to some degree :-S

also, again, thanks for this awesome post.