Retrieve url parameters

Question

Hi All
I need to retrieve all the parameters of the url, for example if the URL looks like
http://www.mydomain.com/MyApp.html#firstName=Nick;lastName=Danger
(example used: http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/3/html/help.html?content=deep_linking_5.html )
Anyway, the code to extract the parameters looks like
then the parameters are extracted like
        private function init(e:Event):void {
            bm = BrowserManager.getInstance();               
            bm.init("", "Welcome!");
            /* The following code will parse a URL that passes firstName and lastName as
               query string parameters after the "#" sign; for example:
               http://www.mydomain.com/MyApp.html#firstName=Nick&lastName=Danger */
            var o:Object = URLUtil.stringToObject(bm.fragment, "&");               
            fName = o.firstName;
            lName = o.lastName;               
However, the fName and lName remain empty. Any suggestion how to retrieve URL parameters ?
cheers
Luca

Answer 1

Hi scaljeri...try this...it worked for me last week:
protected function readQueryString():String{
          var urlParams:Dictionary = new Dictionary();
          if (ExternalInterface.available)
               var fullUrl:String = ExternalInterface.call('eval', 'document.location.href');
               var paramStr:String = fullUrl.split('?')[1];
               if (paramStr != null)
                    var params:Array = paramStr.split('&');
                    var s:String;
                    for (var i:int=0; i < params.length; i++)
                         var kv:Array = params[i].split('=');
                         urlParams[kv[0]] = kv[1];
                         s =  kv[1];
               return s;
          return null;
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