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Find URL of swf html host

Hello,

I need a flash swf file to be able to find out what the URL is of the html page that the swf is on? Then make it a variable that I can pass onto another page...

Thanks...........Rob

thor918

do you have serverside capabilities?
asp? then you can do this easy!<HTML>

movie1.asp--->
<HEAD>
<TITLE>Movie1</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY bgcolor="#FFFFFF">


<OBJECT classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"
codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=5,0,0,0"
WIDTH=550 HEIGHT=400>
<PARAM NAME=movie VALUE="Movie1.swf?url=<%="http://"&Request.ServerVariables("SERVER_NAME")&Request.ServerVariables("Url")%>">
<PARAM NAME=quality VALUE=high>
<PARAM NAME=bgcolor VALUE=#FFFFFF>
<EMBED src="Movie1.swf?url=<%="http://"&Request.ServerVariables("SERVER_NAME")&Request.ServerVariables("Url")%>" quality=high bgcolor=#FFFFFF WIDTH=550 HEIGHT=400 TYPE="application/x-shockwave-flash" PLUGINSPAGE="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash"></EMBED>
</OBJECT>
</BODY>
</HTML>

as you see this asp puts the page url into a querystring where the Movie1.swf are..
Like this->
Movie1.swf?url=http://thor/flash/Movie1.asp

If you have an dynamic text box named url in the flash file you will retrive the url ;)

thor918

if you know asp you will see that this is the only asp(server side script) in the page
<%="http://"&Request.ServerVariables("SERVER_NAME")&Request.ServerVariables("Url")%>"

jsttriit

ASKER

I do have server side ability but I need this to be done on a regular html page. We are using flash to let people put in bugs when reviewing a website(all .htm pages).

So I need flash to be able to determine the hosting page url dynamically and then make it a variable which will then be passed to a cold fusion page for processing.

Thanks for the effor though.....Rob

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thor918

see it in action here->
http://hammar.no/users/thor/submit/flash.htm

files->
http://hammar.no/users/thor/submit/flash.htm
http://hammar.no/users/thor/submit/Movie1.fla
http://hammar.no/users/thor/submit/writeflashobject.js
http://hammar.no/users/thor/submit/Movie1.swf

jsttriit

ASKER

Cool, let me mess around with it. I really want it all in the flash movie with no javascript involved, but let me see if I can get this to work.

I would think flash mx would be able to do this, but no one has figured out how.

Thanks..Rob

thor918

okey.. I will check out if I can make an mx example.

thor918

There is no method to get the url of the html page where the swf is located.
The only thing you can do is getting the url where the movie is..
like this in actionscript->
url = _url;
(variable = _url;)

this works in lower versions too.
but for finding the html page you must use clientsidesdcript or serversidescript.

If you realy don't want to use javascript, you can use the _url to parse out the "http://hammar.no/users/thor/submit/"
and then put in src="Movie1.swf?file=test.html" manualy in each html page to identify the html page to flash, but that isn't exactly dynamic.

jsttriit

ASKER

Great work. Thanks..............Rob

thor918

:D Glad to be of help. Thanks for the points!