Dynamic URL link How?

Question

I want to be able to change the URL web address of web links
inside my flash document by the means of an external text file, is
this possible? I cant find any reference to any simple actionscript
on the web.
I don’t want to use php or any other scripting, I was
thinking of putting a variable in the url field then loading a text
file with the urls I want it to link to??
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Answer 1

OK, I think people may be missing the obvious here. The posts
above are all correct ActionScript. Some of them have more code
than is really needed but it all looks correct so I am going to
guess that the problem is that no one has mentioned that on the
default Flash security settings, you cannot access links on the
internet from Flash movies run from your local machine.
In other words, if you create a button with a link to
http://www.adobe.com and run that
Flash movie on your computer, it will not work. A security warning
will pop-up. You need to upload your Flash movie to a server for it
to work properly unless you are only using relative links (links
that are relative to the current file and part of the same file
system with no domain needed).
As for the code, my preference is to write it like this:
In a text file name data.txt:
URL1=http://www.adobe.com&URL2=http://www.google.com
On the first frame of the Movie:
loadVariablesNum("data.txt");
On the button:
on(release){
GetURL(URL1,"_blank");
UPLOAD IT TO YOUR SERVER TO TEST IT.
Be sure to note that the text data will be cached by most
browsers but that is something that can be saved for another time.