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Variable from subdomain??

Sep 30, 2007 11:23 AM

Hi! I saw somewhere a way where a subdomain made a variable in flash. Eg, if i had a site called mysite.com - and anyone can come and put http://blablabla.mysite.com - and a variable on my flash file would be blablabla. Is that possible?

Ps, I use flash 8 with actionscript 2
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  • kglad
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    1. kglad,
    Sep 30, 2007 12:48 PM   in reply to Zac.T
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    you can use the _url property of your main timeline to return the url of the html page used to load your swf. you can then use the flash string methods to extract the data you want.
     
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  • Zac.T
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    Oct 1, 2007 9:44 AM   in reply to Zac.T
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    Hello?
     
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  • kglad
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    Oct 1, 2007 10:17 AM   in reply to Zac.T
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    :

     
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    4. Zac.T,
    Oct 1, 2007 11:03 AM   in reply to Zac.T
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    That fixed it so it can detect the domain, but how do I single out the rest, so I only get the subdomain?
     
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    5. Zac.T,
    Oct 1, 2007 11:22 AM   in reply to Zac.T
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    That doesn't work to single out the subdomain.

    it's @ http://zacturner.com/subdomain.html

    if you go to blablabla.zacturner.com/subdomain.html , it gives you the full address, not just the subdomain.
     
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  • kglad
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    Oct 1, 2007 11:44 AM   in reply to Zac.T
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    that's what you said you wanted in your first message.

    if you want a different portion of the url, check the flash string methods. you should be able to extract whatever you want.
     
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  • Zac.T
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    Oct 1, 2007 12:03 PM   in reply to Zac.T
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    It's not though.

    I said, if i had http://bill.zacturner.com/subdomain.html (it's a real site, and it should be working), instead of the variable to be http://bill.zacturner.com/subdomain.html , I want it to just be Bill. Is that possible?

    Sorry for any misunderstanding.
     
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  • kglad
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    Oct 1, 2007 12:29 PM   in reply to Zac.T
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    yes, use the code i gave but convert the first character of the resulting sub-string to upper case using toUpperCase().
     
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    9. Zac.T,
    Oct 1, 2007 12:34 PM   in reply to Zac.T
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    hmm, it doesn't seem to work

    http://zacturner.com/subdomain.html

    There's the link.
     
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    10. Zac.T,
    Oct 2, 2007 9:52 AM   in reply to Zac.T
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    Thanks KGlad for your help, I am halfway there! ;)

    Does anyone know how to shorten it to just the subdomain?
     
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  • kglad
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    Oct 8, 2007 12:10 PM   in reply to Zac.T
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    what is it?
     
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  • Greg Dove
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    12. Greg Dove,
    Oct 8, 2007 12:31 PM   in reply to Zac.T
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    typo I think it should be:

    yourVAr = this._url.substring(this._url.indexOf("//")+2, this._url.indexOf("."));
     
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    13. Zac.T,
    Oct 8, 2007 1:13 PM   in reply to Zac.T
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    Thanks!

    It works perfectly now!

    I'll stop bugging everyone now! ;)
     
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