Comments on: How to get URL query-string variables within Flex application

By: arthipesa

arthipesa — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 22:20:18 +0000

Thank you abdul, this code is what I was needed to know.

By: Sachin Dev Tripathi

Sachin Dev Tripathi — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 06:18:12 +0000

Could you please advise to Adobe Flex team to make a class 'URLParser' or 'QueryString' like this? It must be added with the SDK. If your solution is not much complecated so why they had not think about it to already implement with SDK?

Thanks
Sachin
sachindevtripathi@gmail.com

By: Sachin Dev Tripathi

Sachin Dev Tripathi — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 11:26:03 +0000

Its excellent...works perfectly..i am exactly looking for this..Thanks you very much..

Thanks again

Warm regards
Sachin dev tripathi

By: Sachin Dev Tripathi

Sachin Dev Tripathi — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 11:34:34 +0000

Hi abdul,
I have passed the ImgId in UrlRequest and then i used navigateToUrl to open new window. i opened application i am using Application.application.parameters.ImgId but it is not working although ?ImgId=1 is displaying in url. i have not used your QueryString.as class. It is must to use?

Please let me know what i am doing wrong?

Thanks
Sachin

By: Abdul Qabiz

Abdul Qabiz — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 22:24:32 +0000

That's right, it should work that way. I wrote this class long time back and have not tested it against latest browsers, flash player and flex framework.

Please let me know, if you confirm it still works.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 13:22:40 +0000

How do I use this class?

Like this:

var qs:QueryString = new QueryString();
var id:int = qs.parameters.id;

Will this give me the id number in this url:

http://www.domain.com/index.html?id=5

Nice if it's so easy=)

By: Rajnish

Rajnish — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 18:16:52 +0000

yuytuytuytu

By: nicoweb.contact

nicoweb.contact — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 09:50:38 +0000

Hi,

thanks abdul for this great article, i knew about flashvars, how to get them, etc, but it seems this process is faster and easier thks for the details

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By: Paul Sijpkes

Paul Sijpkes — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 19:07:29 +0000

Thanks Abdul! I could not get the flashvars to work with my custom app but this has solved it for me. No need to pass any variables to the EMBED tag via PHP! So easy! Thanks.

By: Simon

Simon — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 03:37:05 +0000

Hi Abdul,

That’s great !

Here is a very interesting use of your code:

I have two Applications. MyAppWidget is a small swf used to navigate to different main applications on different servers.

In MyAppWidget:

var url:String = “”
url += navigateEvent.applicationBaseURL;
var request:URLRequest = new URLRequest(url);
var variables:URLVariables = new URLVariables();
variables.email = _modelLocator.loginAttempt.username;
variables.pwd = _modelLocator.loginAttempt.password;
request.data = variables;

request.method = URLRequestMethod.GET;

try {
navigateToURL(request);
…

Im MyMainApp:
I use your wrapper and it work great ! However, as you can see my parameters are email and encrypted pwd over https, so I would like to use the URLRequestMethod.POST (not GET) to hide it (it’s best practice too) and in this case the script doesn’t work anymore…

Any suggestion ?

By the way, I have a recommendation: It will be great to create a js that can simply be include in the standard flex wrapper (html) and “push” flashvar on demand. I’m so disappointed that it’s not out of the Flex 3 box ! maybe in Flex 4 ? My understanding is that BrowserManager can only read fragment (everything after # character by using browserManager.fragment) and not parameters (from GET or POST function in HTML)

Simon

By: Abdul Qabiz

Abdul Qabiz — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 04:20:28 +0000

@vajahat: Glad to know, you found it useful. It’s very old one and I believe, it can updated to use better technique.

By: Abdul Qabiz

Abdul Qabiz — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 04:19:22 +0000

@olga:

Glad to know, it helped you.

-abdul

By: Olga S.

Olga S. — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 16:38:31 +0000

Thank you very much, I started to use your class right away.

By: Vajahat Ali

Vajahat Ali — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 13:51:12 +0000

Nice Article Adul

By: SL

SL — Wed, 13 May 2009 22:08:14 +0000

I can’t believe how long I had to search for this, it’s exactly what I needed yet no body on any of the forums could help me. I knew the solution was there but it’s a matter of knowing how to access the variable name.
Thanks so much,