Passing a querystring variable to flash player

[bobolito]

<div id="newxspf">
<script type="text/javascript" src="/FMP3/swfobject.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">

<!--
var flashObj = new FlashObject
("/FMP3/XSPF_EV.swf?action=stop&vol=80&playlist=/vacilon/jan2006/jan23-jan28/fri/playlist.xml&folder=/FMP3/&textcolor=&color=&loop=playlist&lma=yes&viewinfo=false&display= 1@. - @0@ - @","newxspf", "265", "225", 7, "#800000", true);
flashObj.write ("newxspf");
// -->
</script>
</div>

The code above is the Javascript I use to display the XSPF Flash Player on my web page. It works fine. The problem is, I have several playlists that I want to load to the player depending on the link the user clicks. So, what I want to do is add variables to the playlist part of the code:

("/FMP3/XSPF_EV.swf?action=stop&vol=80&playlist=/vacilon/jan2006/jan23-jan28/fri/playlist.xml....

So instead of having /vacilon/jan2006/jan23-jan28/fri/playlist.xml

I want to have something like /vacilon/&month&/&week&/&day&/playlist.xml

...where month, week and day are variables.

I tried using FlashVars but if I take the "playlist" parameter outside that parenthesis, the player won't load. For instance, if I add this line below the var flashObj line:

flashObj.addParam("playlist", "/vacilon/jan2006/jan23-jan28/fri/playlist.xml")

I also tried addVariable in the same way and the player doesn't load:

flashObj.addVariable("playlist", getQueryParamValue("playlist"))

The only way the player loads is when the playlist parameter is included in the same line with the rest of the other parameters action, vol, folder, etc. I want to know if it is possible to take the playlist out of there or if not, I would like to know if there is a way to add a variable into the line itself. So far, my attempts to add a variable only result in the player not loading. The player loads and plays fine once I make the code look like posted above.

Thanks

 

[oldnewbie]

If you used the swfObject to embed your movie, you could easily pass variables with Flashvars, as described here...

http://blog.deconcept.com/swfobject/

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[bobolito]

Thanks. I just figured it out. The problem was I was using the & as the concatenation sign, but in Javascript I'm supposed to use the + sign instead. It works good now.