Loadvars.load() - MACROMEDIA FLASH MX 2004-ACTIONSCRIPT LANGUAGE Reference

LoadVars.load()

Availability
Flash Player 6; behavior changed in Flash Player 7.
Usage
my_lv.load(url:String) : Boolean
Parameters
A string; the URL from which to download the variables. If the SWF file issuing this call is
url
running in a web browser,
Description section.
Returns
A Boolean value;
Description
Method; downloads variables from the specified URL, parses the variable data, and places the
resulting variables into
variables are overwritten. Any properties in
variables are not deleted. This is an asynchronous action.
The downloaded data must be in the MIME content type application/x-www-form-urlencoded.
This is the same format used by loadVariables().
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. A superdomain is derived by removing
the left-most component of a file's URL. For example, a SWF file at www.someDomain.com can
load data from sources at store.someDomain.com because both files are in the same superdomain
named someDomain.com.
In SWF files of any version running in Flash Player 7 or later,
domain (see "Flash Player security features" in Using ActionScript in Flash). For example, a SWF
file at www.someDomain.com can load data only from sources that are also at
www.someDomain.com. If you want to load data from a different domain, you can place a cross-
domain policy file on the server hosting the SWF file. For more information, see "About allowing
cross-domain data loading" in Using ActionScript in Flash.
Also, in files published for Flash Player 7, case-sensitivity (see "Case sensitivity" in Using
ActionScript in Flash) is supported for external variables loaded with
This method is similar to
Example
The following code defines an
Flash application from a server-side PHP script, and then loads the data in passvars.php.
var my_lv:LoadVars = new LoadVars();
my_lv.onLoad = function(success:Boolean) {
if (success) {
must be in the same domain as the SWF file; for details, see the
url
if no parameter is specified,
false
. Any properties in
my_lv
.
XML.load()
handler function that signals when data is returned to the
onLoad
otherwise.
true
with the same names as downloaded
my_lv
with different names than downloaded
my_lv
url
must be in the
url
must be in exactly the same
.
LoadVars.load()
LoadVars.load() 389