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AgentX

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I'm trying to implement my search form a swf movie (Flash).
The user enters search words into the animated box and it should send them to the fmsearch2.cgi script.
I wonder if you could give me some pointers. At present it just opens up the main_layout.html but returns no results.
What should I set as my input variable? "keywords" doesn't work.
Thanks.
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The link which you should link to would have to look something like this:

http://www.yourdomain.com/cgi-bin/fmsearch/fmsearch.cgi?keywords=keywords_typed

If you use mysql it will have to look like this:
http://www.yourdomain.com/cgi-bin/fmsearch/fmsearch.cgi?keywords=keywords_typed

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Quote: If you use mysql it will have to look like this:
http://www.yourdomain.com/cgi-bin/fmsearch/fmsearch.cgi?keywords=keywords_typed

Did you mean fmsearch2.cgi?
That's what it says in your documentation.

I'm stumped with this Flash problem. I've tried several variables (including keywords_typed but the input words are still not getting through to the script it seems.
I've looked carefully at how your html input button works and copied it in Flash. I've searched for any clues on the net and have run out of ideas.

Any chance you might take a look at it for me?
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Yes, it's actually fmsearch2.cgi if you are using MySQL.

I'm sorry to say this but I would be useless with flash. The idea is that you need to most probably get user input (the keywords to search for) from the user via flash and pass it on to the script.

So you will need to figure out how to pass user input (keywordS) from flash to a link and load the link in the browser.

Miles




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Cracked it at last.



Text input box in flash movie = Keywords



Button action = on (release, keyPress "<Enter>" {      



}



Can't see what the problem was now?
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