Loading Variables from ASP into Flash

I can find plenty of tutorials detailing how to load
variables from a defined asp page into Flash, but here's my
dilemma...
I have an asp page that is reading a URL with a unique
identifier in it (www.sampleURL.com?id=123456), and then turns the
id number from the URL into a variable. On the same page then, sits
my swf where I need to use LoadVars to pull in that ASP variable
via Actionscript. If I don't have a static asp page to pull the
variables in from and I want to pass the variable within the same
asp page the swf is located on, how do I do it? Many thanks in
advance...

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>I can find plenty of tutorials detailing how to load
variables from a
>defined
> asp page into Flash, but here's my dilemma...
>
> I have an asp page that is reading a URL with a unique
identifier in it
> (www.sampleURL.com?id=123456), and then turns the id
number from the URL
> into a
> variable. On the same page then, sits my swf where I
need to use LoadVars
> to
> pull in that ASP variable via Actionscript. If I don't
have a static asp
> page
> to pull the variables in from and I want to pass the
variable within the
> same
> asp page the swf is located on, how do I do it? Many
thanks in advance...
>
You don't need LoadVars for this at all. You can just pass
the variable to
your Flash movie by specifying a query string when you are
calling the
movie.
If you are using the straight object, embed method then it
would look
something like this:
<param name="movie" value="movie.swf?id=11111">
<embed src="movie.swf?id=11111" ... >
If you are using the ActiveContent JavaScript for your movie
then you just
leave off the .swf... so
"name", "movie?id=11111"
Then, in flash you can access the value of id from the _root,
like
var idInFlash:Number = _root.id;
Of course in the above example you would replace 11111 with
the proper
syntax for printing a variable's value in ASP.

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http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/9.0/main/00001166.html

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