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Hello!

I have a Facebook application that has a picture gallery. It's build in Flex 4. I want to allow users to link to a specific image.

How can that be done?

The only way I see this being done is adding a GET var like &my_picture=asd.jpg in the Facebook page URL, but I don't know how to read that from the iFrame.

+2  A: 

Yes, you can add a parameter to the querystring for this:

http://app.facebook.com/yourapp?myparam=1234

Then, your app will be called like this:

http://domainwhereyouhostyourapp.com/your_fb_app/index.php?myparam=1234

Some other parameters are passed by facebook as well, most related to auth tokens, etc. They are prefixed by "fb_" to prevent name clashes.

In your index.php (or whatever you are using), read the get parameter you're interested in and pass them to your swf as usual.

Juan Pablo Califano
Thank you, excellent!
Francisc