HELP!! Transfer Parameters

[tomtom]

Hi,

I created a flash app for a client.

Now the client needs the following:

He gives me an URL like http://www.his-site.com/index.php?id1=XXX&m_id2=XXX

If a user clicks on a button in the app, then parameters have to be transfered. So sometimes it can be http://www.his-site.com/index.php?id1=34453&m_id2=3453 and sometimes http://www.his-site.com/index.php?id1=43772&m_id2=364672 etc. ...

Is it possible to transfer parameters to swf apps?

I hope somebody can help me soon. :/

[DavidN]

Yes, you can either read the parameters in Javascript and have the application call functions on the page to get them (through the Flash Player object), or you can use PHP to pass them in when the application starts through the FlashVars - see the Flash section of the Help documentation in MMF.

[tomtom]

Thank you very much!

php transmit would be perfect!
Maybe somebody knows more details how I can implement this?

[DavidN]

How much PHP do you know? To give a basic example from one of my Flash applications, I use this at the top of the file to get the parameters:

<? $passedInStopId = $_GET['stopId']; ?>
<? $passedInRouteId = $_GET['routeId']; ?>

And then the object tag looks like this:

<object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"
		id="mbta" width="640" height="256"
		codebase="http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/current/swflash.cab">
		<param name="movie" value="mbta.swf" />
		<param name="quality" value="high" />
		<param name="bgcolor" value="#ffffff" />
		<param name="allowScriptAccess" value="sameDomain" />
		<param name="FlashVars" value="param1=<? echo($passedInStopId) ?>&param2=<? echo($passedInRouteId) ?>">
		<embed src="mbta.swf" quality="high" bgcolor="#ffffff"
			width="640" height="256" name="mbta" align="middle"
			FlashVars="param1=<? echo($passedInStopId) ?>&param2=<? echo($passedInRouteId) ?>"
			play="true"
			loop="false"
			quality="high"
			allowScriptAccess="sameDomain"
			type="application/x-shockwave-flash"
			pluginspage="http://www.adobe.com/go/getflashplayer">
		</embed>
</object>

You can then get the values of the FlashVars through the Special object - the MMF2 Help shows exactly how.

[tomtom]

Thanks for your help!
To be honest I don't know very much about php.

So if a user goes to http://site.com/test.php?id1=238&id2=37483

... how exactly do I write a complete little php script that gets those ID-contents that I can use with mmf FlashVars?

Could you help me?

The FlashVars part I understood. I read the help and everything seems clear to me.

[DavidN]

You don't need much more than what I posted - if you're just getting the parameters "id1" and "id2" without modification, then just edit your object tag to look like:

<object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"
		id="mbta" width="640" height="256"
		codebase="http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/current/swflash.cab">
		<param name="movie" value="yourflashfile.swf" />
		<param name="quality" value="high" />
		<param name="bgcolor" value="#ffffff" />
		<param name="allowScriptAccess" value="sameDomain" />
		<param name="FlashVars" value="param1=<? echo($_GET["id1"]) ?>&param2=<? echo($_GET["id2"]) ?>">
		<embed src="yourflashfile.swf" quality="high" bgcolor="#ffffff"
			width="640" height="256" name="mbta" align="middle"
			FlashVars="param1=<? echo($_GET["id1"]) ?>&param2=<? echo($_GET["id2"]) ?>"
			play="true"
			loop="false"
			quality="high"
			allowScriptAccess="sameDomain"
			type="application/x-shockwave-flash"
			pluginspage="http://www.adobe.com/go/getflashplayer">
		</embed>
</object>

Note that you also may have to change the filename of your .html so that it has a .php extension instead.

[tomtom]

Cool! I try it now.
Thank you very much!

[tomtom]

Worked! Thanks!!