Webmaster Forum / Flash / Data Integration / June 2006

[q][i]Originally posted by: [b][b]Mocapoke[/b][/b][/i]
Throwing this out there. I would like to know how to have flash grab an XML
URL from the embed tag (i.e. embed src=""
flashvars="profile=http://xmlfile.xml".

Reason:
I make http://mocapoke.com/copetutorials/template3 myspace templates for
people to use, but they can only be edited by people who own flash.  If the
user could edit an XML file with all of their content, then they would be able
to use the layouts regardless of whether or not they have flash.

Does anyone here know how to do this? I believe it is something like this on
an actions layer:

_root.profile == undefined ? profile= "mp3player.xml" : profile=_root.profile;

data_xml = new XML();
data_xml.ignoreWhite = true;
data_xml.onLoad = loadData;
data_xml.load(profile);

If I am able to load the XML, I can parse it. But I need to get it loaded
first.

Thanks,
Dan Hill
P.S. If you are POSITIVE you are able to do this, will you PLEASE email me,
danhill@mocapoke.com.  Thanks[/q]

Assuming this is an authenticated login app, pass the session id or login
id,  (whatever you use to indentify the user) to Flash with flashvars if you
want and have Flash first load the profile xml, parse it and then move on to
the loading of the other files.