Passing parameters to ActionScript from HTML query strings

URL String: http://me.com/index.html?name=redbug&bday=0314

Method 1: root.loaderInfo.parameters
1. get query strings in url by javascript

• window.location.href
• window.location.search

2. passing parameter to SWF in HTML

• <object><embed src="Foo.swf?name="redbug&bday=0314/></object>  or
• Using FlashVars to pass variables to a SWF

3. receive parameter in ActionScript
<br /> // from swf parmeters<br /> private function getFlashVars()<br /> {<br /> var params:Object = root.loaderInfo.parameters;<br /> if( params ){<br /> for (var key:Object in params) {<br /> trace( key, params[key] ); <br /> }<br /> }<br /> }<br />



Method 2: ExternalInterface.call('javascript function name')
receiving parameters in ActionScript
<br /> // from url query string<br /> private function getQueryStringFromHTML()<br /> {<br /> var queryStr:String = ExternalInterface.call( "window.location.search.substring", 1 );<br /> if( queryStr ){<br /> trace( queryStr );<br /> }<br /> }<br />



Reference:
Flex程序如何获取html容器传递的URL参数值
ActionScript JavaScript Communication

ActionScript 3.0 Cookbook - Chapter 22 Building Integrated Application