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

Question

Hi folks,

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.

Answer 1

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

LoaderInfo(this.root.loaderInfo)

to extract it inside Flash, then append the key to the redirect string.

Also look at the ExternalInterface class.

Answer 2

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");

Answer 3

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 ) );
}