Using _Post Data in ActionScript

Judging from what you've written, I'm guessing that you have a form on one page, and a flash file on your next page.
Unfortunately there isn't a way to directly access information regarding the current webpage that your flash document is being displayed on. However, with a couple of inbetweeners you can do it.

Firstly, you need to use GET instead of POST. Javascript can access GET variables as they are part of the URL, but POST variables are not accessible, as they are sent to the server, but not sent back to whoever is viewing the page.

What you will need to do is grab these get variables using javascript, and then use javascript to load the swf file into your webpage.

Code:

// This is javascript to grab GET variables
// Thanks to http://keithnorm.com/2008/12/30/parse-query-string-into-associative-array-with-javascript/

function parseQuery() {
var queryAsAssoc = new Array();
var queryString = unescape(top.location.search.substring(1));
var keyValues = queryString.split(/\&/);
for (var i in keyValues) {
var key = keyValues[i].split(/\=/);
queryAsAssoc[keyValues[0]] = keyValues[1];
}
return queryAsAssoc;
}

// Usage: variables = praseQuery();
// alert( variables[ 'profile' ] ); // will show 'BigAmp' in a message box

So you chuck something that uses that in your <body onload="......."> tag. You use those variables to construct your flash code.

So before javascript tinkers, it will look something like

Code:

after javascript tinkers, it should look like

Code:

Notice that you have to add the information twice - one to handle internet explorer, and the other to handle every other browser on the planet.

If you need more help just yell. Cheers

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