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llion
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June 7, 2006
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Simple GET form (input text variable problem)

  • June 7, 2006
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I'm trying to move some info from flash to another page, it should be really simple.

All i have is an input text field and a button, the input text has the instance name search_txt

I have this code on the button

on (click) {;
searchText=search_txt
searchON = "OK"
getURL("search.php", "_self", "GET");
}

the searchON is just a variable i need for the php - and that works fine
but for searchText i get searchText=undefined

so i'm guessing i need to do something like define it as a variable, where and how should i do this?

what i want as an outcome is search.php? searchText=whatever was in the input text field&theRestOfTheStuff

thanks for any help
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Correct answer blemmo
ok i think my brain is frying trying to get over this, i couldn't even see how to upload the fla to the forum...

so here's a link to get it from my site

[EDIT - removed link after it was used]
You shouldn't have vars with the same name as object instances, guess that's the reason for the strange things in your last post.
I deleted the var assigned to the textfield, and used
searchText = _root.search_txt.text;
this gets the text from the textfield. You can check this with a trace:

on (click) {
trace(_root.search_txt.text);
searchText = _root.search_txt.text;
searchON = "OK"
getURL("search.php", "_self", "GET");
}

However, it didn't open a new site when testing... Another reason why I never use components, they just behave strange too often. I recommend using the standard buttons or MCs with the onRelease event, if you don't need the special visual style the button components are providing.

cheers,
blemmo

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llionAuthor
Participant
June 7, 2006
Quality, that's done it. and no i don't need the visual stuff. i'm actually applying it to a banner to which i've already put all the graphics on. (but thought it would be easier to work out what i was doing on the most basic of basic sheets first then apply to the banner). so i'm now using an onRelease event and that works too.

Thanks very much!!
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llionAuthor
Participant
June 7, 2006
ok something's happened... but not the right result... yet

i changed it to _root.search_txt.text; as you suggested

and then i took out the defalut text from the textbox, and now when i go to the page the default text is _level0.search_txt

if i leave this in i'm returned &searchText=%5Flevel0%2Esearch%5Ftxt
which would be the desired result if that's what i'd typed.

but whenever i change this to my own text i just get 'undefined' again

(changing the code to searchText = _level0.search_txt.text; doesn't help either)

would it be any help to you if i post you the link and fla file?
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blemmo
Inspiring
June 7, 2006
Strange... I setup a movie as you described, just a textfield and a button, and it worked right away. When I used this line:
searchText=search_txt
then I got the result you described in your last post, searchText=%5Flevel0%2Esearch%5Ftxt. When I used
searchText=search_txt.text
it did as expected and the output was searchText=xxx, whatever the input was.

Maybe you can upload your fla, now I'm curious what's wrong here.
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llionAuthor
Participant
June 7, 2006
ok i think my brain is frying trying to get over this, i couldn't even see how to upload the fla to the forum...

so here's a link to get it from my site

[EDIT - removed link after it was used]
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blemmo
Inspiring
June 7, 2006
Hi,

search_txt is the name of the textfield, the text it holds is in the 'text' property:

on (click) {
searchText = search_txt.text;
searchON = "OK";
getURL("search.php", "_self", "GET");
}

If you have a lot of other vars in your movie, getURL might be not so good, because it sends every var in the movie. Have a look at the LoadVars class, it gives you more control about what's getting sent.

cheers,
blemmo
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llionAuthor
Participant
June 7, 2006
searchText = search_txt.text;
yup, already tried that one and i still get undefined as an output

any further ideas?

I'm going to change it to post after i've worked this out - it's only on get so i can see what exactly the whole thing is outputting
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blemmo
Inspiring
June 7, 2006
Hm, try
searchText = _root.search_txt.text;
or instead of _root the full path to the textfield.
If it still won't work, you could try to assign a variable to the textfield, and use this to get to the text. I had some cases too where I couldn't get to the text via the 'text' property, dunno why.

hth,
blemmo
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