Flash AS3, Redirect after movie plays - with php driven querystring

1
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I've got a situation where I have a visitor arriving at a php page with a ID key. They then navigate to page 2 where they key id is carried along in a querystring variable.

i.e. http://www.mysite.com?x=abcde12345

Page 2 has a flash video on it - that is playing a movie. Once the movie stops playing I want flash to redirect to page 3 - bringing the querystring along with it, as page 3 needs to use the querystring to look up a database value.

I used to have this working great in older flash with GetURL - but need it in AS3 now. I've searched for quite awhile on it - and I can see how to redirect with a querystring - but can't see how to redirect with a dynamic querystring - and i'm pretty lost when it comes to flash.

Any ideas?

Thank you.

Update: I'm not sure where I am going wrong here.

Here is my HTML code

<script>
document.write('<OBJECT classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"'); document.write('codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=8,0,0,0"');
document.write('WIDTH="550" HEIGHT="400" id="movie" ALIGN="">');
document.write(' <PARAM NAME=movie VALUE="Movie-test.swf">');
document.write(' <PARAM NAME=FlashVars VALUE="x='+toPage+'">');
document.write(' <PARAM NAME=quality VALUE=high>');
document.write(' <PARAM NAME=bgcolor VALUE=#FFFFFF>');

document.write('<EMBED src="Movie-test.swf"');
document.write('    FlashVars="x='+toPage+'"');
document.write('    bgcolor=#99CC33 WIDTH=550 HEIGHT=400 ');
document.write('    TYPE="application/x-shockwave-flash">');
document.write('  </EMBED>');
document.write(' </OBJECT>');
</script>

And my AS3 code

var params:Object = this.loaderInfo.parameters;
var id:String = params.x;

//then after the movie completes

function onComplete(event:Event):void
{
   var page3URL:String = "page2.php?" + "x=" +id;
   navigateToURL( new URLRequest( page3URL ) );
}

The video just loops and replays on itself.

What I've got is layer 1 has the movie, up to frame 2993. I created Layer2, and on Layer 2 - frame 2993 I inserted a keyframe - and put the above as3 script.

Can you see where I'm going wrong?

Thank you.

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Thank you folks, I got called away to a different site, but hope to be able to try it tomorrow – Chasester

3 Answers

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var params:Object = this.loaderInfo.parameters;
var id:String = params.x;

//then after the movie completes

function onComplete(event:VideoEvent):void
{
   var page3URL:String = "http://example.com?" + "x=" +id;
   navigateToURL( new URLRequest( page3URL ) );
}
1
votes

You have two option:

1. Loading the ID into your flash using flashvars.

Here is a tut on this http://www.permadi.com/tutorial/flashVars/index.html then var nexturl:URLRequest = new URLRequest("http://www.domain.com/page3.php?id="+id); navigateToURL(nexturl,"_self");

or

2. Calling a Javascript function from inside flash

just make a small redirect function in HTML

function nextPage(){ }

and from inside flash

var temp:Object = ExternalInterface.call("nextPage");

0
votes

I would add the ID key using php to the Flashvars property then use 

LoaderInfo(this.root.loaderInfo)

Also look at the ExternalInterface class.