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writing URL variables into flash embed script

Hi, I have the following two scripts. The first retrieves a url variable, the second is the flash embed script. I need to retrieve the "id" value from the URL string and place that in the flash embed script in two locations. Any ideas?

<SCRIPT type=text/javascript>
function get(name) {
      var q = unescape(location.search.substring(1)).split(/[=&]/);
      for (var j=0; j<q.length; j+=2) {
            if (q[j] == name) {
                  return q[j+1];
            }
      }
      return "";
}
</SCRIPT>

<object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=7,0,0,0" width="500" height="300">

<param name="movie" value="/content/images/slideshow/slideshow.swf">
<param name="quality" value="high">
<param name="wmode" value="window">
<param name="flashvars" value="xml=/content/images/slideshow/[id from url string goes here].xml">
<embed src="/content/images/slideshow/slideshow.swf" width="500" height="300" quality="high" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="window" flashvars="xml=/content/images/slideshow/[id from url string goes here].xml"></embed>
</object>

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seamusseamus

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it didn't work exactly as you had it, but this gave me the starting point i needed to get it done... here's what worked:

<script language="JavaScript">
document.write('<object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http');
document.write('://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=7,0');
document.write(',0,0" width="500" height="300">  <param name="movie" ');
document.write('value="/content/images/slideshow/slideshow.swf"> <param name="quality" v');
document.write('alue="high"> <param name="wmode" value="window"> <param name="flashva');
document.write('rs" value="xml=/content/images/slideshow/'+get('id')+'.xml"> <em');
document.write('bed src="/content/images/slideshow/slideshow.swf" width="500" height="300" ');
document.write('quality="high" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" ty');
document.write('pe="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="window" flashvars="xml=/content/i');
document.write('mages/slideshow/'+get('id')+'.xml"></embed></object>');
</script>

Zvonko

Thanks for feedback.