::: Url ::::

[%20]

is it possible that Flash read the URL of the page?

if the swf is in http://www.flashkit.com/board/newthread.php it goes to frame number 5...instead if it's in http://www.flashkit.com/board/cow.php it goes in frame 10.....

is it possible???


thanx

[pooxter]

I think that what you could do is have an if statement that would asign a variable. You would then send that variable to a .txt file on a PHP server. Then in the movie you can have a loadVariablesNum function, and then a final if statement to determine which frame to go to.

[kay_siegert]

trace(_root._url);

k.

[%20]

Originally posted by kay_siegert
trace(_root._url);

k.

yep...but how???

[kay_siegert]

if(_root._url == "http://www.myhost.com/myswffolder/myswf.swf"){
     // do something ...
}else{
     // do nothing ...
}

k.

[Musicman]

Hi Kay,

unfortunately this solution reports the movie's url but not that of the html page.
In plain words: if you put a cartoon on your site and somebody wants to steal it, the code would simply force the bad webmaster to link to the movie on your server and thereby steal your bandwidth too.
Some hosts (e.g. geocities) have a technique in place that prevents linking to your images from an outside html page - maybe your host can offer the same on request

for %20: if this is sort of a menu that should know where it is, you could use
<embed src="movie.swf?page=cow" ....> or similar in the html pages.


Musicman

[kay_siegert]

musicman: yes that´s true. didn´t think of that.

check this one just one line of code and you get the html url.
(i don´t know if all browsers support this method)

make sure you name your movie in the object AND embed tag and set swliveconnect to true (netscape needs it).

k.