E-mail to ASP to FLASH 1

[Roel018]

Hi all,

I've encountered the next problem:


After user-registration process (in flash and asp) I send an activation e-mail to the new member with an activation link in it.
That link looks something like:
http://www.myweb.com/activateaccount.asp?id=12313

Now, I'm trying to get this id string into a flash movie, but I'm not sure of the method and tactics I'm using to accomplish this.

Should I bound the id string to a var in the activateaccount.asp file ? And how do I do this ? How do I push this var than to my flash movie ???

The goal is when the user clicks the link in the e-mail to show him/her a page in flash with the id code (parsed as a variable in flash).


Who can help me out ????

Thnx in advance !!!
Roel

 

[pixl8r]

Yes.

ASP page defines the var and has the object and embed tags for the Flash movie. Example:

<%
strID = request.querystring("id")
%>

Then your embed/object tags:

<object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase="[URL unfurl="true"]http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=7,0,0,0"[/URL] width="800" height="20" id="myMovie" align="middle" VIEWASTEXT>
<param name="allowScriptAccess" value="sameDomain" />
<param name="movie" value="myMovie.swf?id=<%=strID%>" />
<param name="quality" value="high" />
<param name="bgcolor" value="#ffffff" />
<embed src="myMovie.swf?id=<%=strID%>" quality="high" bgcolor="#ffffff" width="800" height="20" name="myMovie" align="middle" allowScriptAccess="sameDomain" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"[/URL] />
</object>

In the example above the variable "id" will be available on the root level of the Flash movie (_root.id). If you have a dynamic text field on the stage with the instance name of emailID you could display the information in that text box.

_root.emailID.text = _root.id;

Hope it helps.

Wow JT that almost looked like you knew what you were doing!

 

[Roel018]

JT YOU DID KNOW WHAT YOU WERE DOING !!!!! It works ;-) ..perfectly ! You saved me a lot of costly time, thanks m8 !

Cheers
Roel