Reading parameters from HTML document

[benny2168]

Here's the code I have in my HTML document to embed my flash movie:

<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="550" height="400" id="flashMovie" align="middle">
<param name="allowScriptAccess" value="sameDomain" />
<param name="movie" value="flashMovie.swf" />
<param name="quality" value="high" />
<param name="bgcolor" value="#ffffff" />
[COLOR=red]<param name="url" value="[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.tek-tips.com"[/URL] />[/color]
<embed src="flashMovie.swf" quality="high" bgcolor="#ffffff" width="550" height="400" name="flashMovie" align="middle" allowScriptAccess="sameDomain" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"[/URL] />
</object>

(the line in red is an extra parameter)

Is there any way for Flash to read this "url" parameter and incorporate it within the flashMovie.swf?

Or is there a way to get the flash player to read what the URL of the current page is?

Thanks all help is appreciated.

 

[billwatson]

pass the parameters as a query string then flash will read them just fine

getting the url of the page its in is probably best passed with javascript

 

[benny2168]

getting the url of the page its in is probably best passed with javascript

what kind of JS script would I use to accomplish this? (say on a button press i would like a textbox to display the current url)

 

[billwatson]

find all these answers at

http://www.permadi.com/tutorial/flashQueryString/

 

[benny2168]

thank you very much, the instructions are great