Sending Variables Out of Flash
Several actions in ActionScript let you send variables from a Flash movie to a server-side script. Some let you receive a response back from the server and some don’t. Later in the tutorial, we describe how to do the former when we show you how to create a functioning form for use with a server-side script. For the latter, you can use the getURL() action, which sends name/value pairs to a URL:
getURL(URL, window, method);
URL is the web site address; window specifies the browser window to load (“_blank”, “_self”, “_parent”, or “_top”); and method specifies the GET or POST method.
For example, you can use the getURL() action to send an e-mail from the Flash movie when the user clicks a button:
on(release) {
var email = “techsupport@mysite.com”;
var subject = escape(“Download Problems”);
var body = “Help”;
getURL(“mailto:”+email+”&subject=”+subject+”&body=”+body);
}
This code opens a new message in the user’s default e-mail program with the e-mail address, subject and body filled in with the contents of the variables.
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In this section, you learned about:
- Declarations and Scope
- Data Types
- Expressions
- Loading external variables
- Sending variables out of Flash
