How to create personalized e-card

**WebWhiz** · 07-03-2008, 10:27 AM

Hello,

I have created an FLASH e-card that I would like to e-mail to a group of people. I would like to feed their first name into a variable on the FLASH e-card from a database. How can I do this? I was hoping I could feed the name variable through the url. Something like (www.domain.com/ecard/ecard.html?name=john)

I also use an outside e-mail service, so I am not sure how that is going to work until I test it. Ultimately, I would have to upload a csv file to the email provider containing the personalized urls.

Can I do this?

Is there a better way?

Am I asking for too much?

**Shotsy247** · 07-03-2008, 11:07 AM

What you need to do is add that variable and value to the flash movie param on the html page.

Something like:

code:

<body bgcolor="#ffffff">

<!--url's used in the movie-->

<!--text used in the movie-->

<!-- saved from url=(0013)about:internet -->

<script language="javascript">



	function getURLVar(urlVarName) {

		var urlHalves = String(document.location).split('?');

		var urlVarValue = '';

		if(urlHalves[1]){

			var urlVars = urlHalves[1].split('&');

			for(var i=0; i<=(urlVars.length); i++){

				if(urlVars[i]){

					var urlVarPair = urlVars[i].split('=');

					if (urlVarPair[0] && urlVarPair[0].toLowerCase() == urlVarName.toLowerCase()) {

						urlVarValue = urlVarPair[1];

					}

				}

			}

		}

		return urlVarValue;

	}

	

	var vidPath = getURLVar("vidPath");



	if (AC_FL_RunContent == 0) {

		alert("This page requires AC_RunActiveContent.js.");

	} else {

		

		AC_FL_RunContent(

			'codebase', 'http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=8,0,0,0',

			'width', '640',

			'height', '522',

			'src', 'vidPlayer?vidPath='+vidPath,

			'quality', 'high',

			'pluginspage', 'http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer',

			'align', 'middle',

			'play', 'true',

			'loop', 'true',

			'scale', 'noscale',

			'wmode', 'window',

			'devicefont', 'false',

			'id', 'vidPlayer',

			'bgcolor', '#ffffff',

			'name', 'vidPlayer',

			'menu', 'true',

			'allowFullScreen', 'false',

			'allowScriptAccess','sameDomain',

			'movie', 'vidPlayer?vidPath='+vidPath,

			'salign', ''

			); //end AC code

	}

</script>

<noscript>

	<object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=8,0,0,0" width="640" height="522" id="vidPlayer" align="middle">

	<param name="allowScriptAccess" value="sameDomain" />

	<param name="allowFullScreen" value="false" />

	<param name="movie" value="vidPlayer.swf?vidPath="+vidPath /><param name="quality" value="high" /><param name="scale" value="noscale" /><param name="bgcolor" value="#ffffff" />	<embed src="vidPlayer.swf?vidPath="+vidPath quality="high" scale="noscale" bgcolor="#ffffff" width="640" height="522" name="vidPlayer" align="middle" allowScriptAccess="sameDomain" allowFullScreen="false" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" />

	</object>

</noscript>

Of course in this example I'm bringing in a variable called vidPath.

So the URL is something like http://www.mysite.com?vidPath=some value.

**WebWhiz** · 07-03-2008, 11:09 AM

Thanks! I will give it a try.

**whispers** · 07-06-2008, 01:39 AM

you can also do what you asked initially in your first post. (grab the variable from the URL/query string)

in my footer are some links on how to do it..

I suggest using the swf object method..

http://board.flashkit.com/board/show...ight=swfobject

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