Set Variables from HTML

Question

Here is the set up, I have a video player embedded in an html
file. The player will play a lead in video for branding purposes IF
the user has not viewed this lead in video yet. ELSE it wil play
the video they specified and then continue to play the rest of the
videos in a que.
Everything is fine except, the current video is dependant on
the HTML page the view is at and I would rather just have 1 swf
file rather than 1 swf file for every video.
So my question is, how can i get the HTML page to tell the
swf file which file to load after the lead in file. I essentially
need to send this parameter from the HTML file to the swf file -
How do I do that??
Thanks!

Answer 1

Using FlashVars is just appending the variable to the SWF's
url. So, in your embed script, where ever you have the path to your
SWF, like, mymovie.swf, you just append whatever variable you need
to that. So, lets say you want to pass in a name, you would use
mymovie.swf?name=dzedward
Then, in flash retrieve it like so:
root.loaderInfo.parameters.name;
Lets say you want to pass in first and last name:
mymovie.swf?firstName=Damon&lastName=Edwards
retrieve it like so:
root.loaderInfo.parameters.firstName;
root.loaderInfo.parameters.lastName;
Now, if you're using SWFObject to embed your SWF, its as
simple as:
so.addVariable("name", "dzedward");
retrieving it the same way as above.