MACROMEDIA FLASH MX 2004 - ACTIONSCRIPT Reference Manual page 423

Description
Function; reads data from an external file, such as a text file or text generated by a CGI script,
Active Server Pages (ASP), or PHP, or Perl script, and sets the values for variables in a target movie
clip. This action can also be used to update variables in the active SWF file with new values.
The text at the specified URL must be in the standard MIME format application/x-www-form-
urlencoded (a standard format used by CGI scripts). Any number of variables can be specified. For
example, the following phrase defines several variables:
company=Macromedia&address=600+Townsend&city=San+Francisco&zip=94103
In SWF files running in a version of the player earlier than Flash Player 7,
same superdomain as the SWF file that is issuing this call. For example, a SWF file at
www.someDomain.com can load variables from a SWF file at store.someDomain.com, because
both files are in the same superdomain of someDomain.com.
In SWF files of any version running in Flash Player 7 or later,
domain (see "Flash Player security features" on page
www.someDomain.com can load variables only from SWF files that are also at
www.someDomain.com. If you want to load variables from a different domain, you can place a
cross-domain policy file on the server hosting the SWF file that is being accessed. For more
information, see
If you want to load variables into a specific level, use
loadVariables()
Example
This example loads information from a text file into text fields into the
the main Timeline. The variable names of the text fields must match the variable names in the
data.txt file.
on(release) {
loadVariables("data.txt", "_root.varTarget");
}
See also
loadVariablesNum()
MovieClip.loadVariables()
loadVariablesNum()
Availability
Flash Player 4. Flash 4 files opened in Flash 5 or later will be converted to use the correct syntax.
Behavior changed in Flash Player 7.
Usage
loadVariablesNum ("url" ,level [, variables])
Parameters
An absolute or relative URL where the variables are located. If the SWF file issuing this call
url
is running in a web browser,
"Description," below.
"About allowing cross-domain data loading" on page
.
, ,
loadMovie()
must be in the same domain as the SWF file; for details, see
url
188). For example, a SWF file at
loadVariablesNum()
,
loadMovieNum() getURL()
must be in the
url
must be in exactly the same
url
190.
instead of
movie clip on
varTarget
,
MovieClip.loadMovie()
loadVariablesNum()
,
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