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[dfstrottersfan]

Is there a way of determining which web host the movie is running on or passing a variable into the code.

The problem I have is that I need to call a different URL depending if I make the call from a development website.

[leifi]

Sorry but I don't really understand what you want to do.

Do you want to call a different URL if the file is on a different domain?
e.g.:

www.myfirst.domain.com/flash.swf -- call www.an.url.com
www.mysecond.domain.com/flash.swf -- call www.other.url.com

Then you could simply change the source code and upload two different movies. One movie with the first URL to one domain and a movie with the second URL to the other domain.

If you don't want to have two different versions you could build a small loader that reads a textfile on the server that contains the URL to be called.

Tell me if you need additional help.

Greetings,
leifi

[dfstrottersfan]

Sorry but I don't really understand what you want to do.

Do you want to call a different URL if the file is on a different domain?
e.g.:

www.myfirst.domain.com/flash.swf -- call www.an.url.com
www.mysecond.domain.com/flash.swf -- call www.other.url.com

yes - this would work - I don't want to have 2 sets of code ....

If you don't want to have two different versions you could build a small loader that reads a textfile on the server that contains the URL to be called.

Tell me if you need additional help.

This was one of my first thoughts - though I could not see how to do it.

I had a quick look through the language help and couldn't see how to read a variable from a file - is it possible to ask you to post a code fragment to do this?

Alternately is there a way of connecting to a MYSQL database and reading data from a table?



Sincere thanks

[leifi]

I've made a small class that you can easily implement into your flash movie. But you need to export to flash 9. Let me know if you want a flash 8 solution.

// Only availible in flash 9 / as3


class FileLoader extends Object
{
	private var loader:URLLoader;
	
	function FileLoader()
	{
		this.loader = new URLLoader;
		this.loader.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, loaderComplete);
		this.loader.addEventListener(IOErrorEvent.IO_ERROR, loaderError);	
	}
	
	function load(path:String):void
	{
		var request = new URLRequest(path);
		this.loader.load(request);
	}
	
	function loaderComplete(event:Event):void
	{
		// here you have to change the code...
		// this.loader.data is the loaded string
	}
		
	function loaderError(event:Event):void
	{
		// an error occured...
	}
	
	
}

Your starting script has to look like this:

var loader = new FileLoader;
loader.load("http://yourdomain.com/file.txt");

And the file has to contain the url:

http://www.an.url.com/

Let me know if it works!