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does anyone know of or could creat a flash script that searches your .html files with keywords that you specifiy?

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Peace Out,
DJLunacy
www.mp3.com/voi

I'm not sure. I know you can search xml files from database outputs, but I'm not sure about html. Anyone?

- DB

If you don't mind using a third party for your site searches you could use Atomz.com (which is free).
If you want I'll post the code for the flash search box. You can use xml for the search results but I have not tried feeding this into flash yet.... I have just used flash for control over the search box.

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Jeremiah
FreakScene - The Dinosaur Jr Audio/Visual Archive
My UBB

I was actually looking for something that I could throw on my server myself.

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Peace Out,
DJLunacy
www.mp3.com/voi

Here is how to setup a search box with Atomz.com (you could use this as a model for other search scripts you may use)

- In your Flash form give the text input field an acceptable name, I used "keyword"
- Create your button. Then select your button and choose Properties from the right-click menu.
- The first line of the Actions field should be On (Release)
- Click the + sign over the Actions field and choose Set Variable
- In the Variable field, type strURL (it's not important what you call it I used strURL for this example)
- Click the button next to the variable field (I don't know what it is called) and select the "Expression" toggle.
- In the value field type:

The quotes are important. In your expression, where I have "nnnnnnnn-spxxxxxxxx" substitute your Atomz account number. You can find this on your HTML form, it will be the value of the hidden input field named "sp-a".
- The second line of your action field should now look like this:


- Click the + sign above the Action field and choose Get URL in the Get URL fields:
enter Eval(strURL) for the URL field
set Window as you desire "_self" is the logical default
set Variables to "Don't Send"
- That's it, your Action statements should now look like this:


-Click OK

That should be it! This code is for Flash5. If you are using 4 you need to change the + to & before the keyword

Very easy
I don't know where to start in passing XML results back into flash but I am going to look into that soon...

Hope this helps someone,

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Jeremiah
FreakScene - The Dinosaur Jr Audio/Visual Archive
My UBB

This message has been edited by freakscene on January 04, 2001 at 02:45 PM

I was typing that last message at the same time you were typing yours....

Anyway, here is an example of what you are looking for (at least the search part of it) so you could use this as a point of reference.

http://www.flashkit.com/movies/Scripting/XML/DahuNode-dahu-1707/index.shtml

Here are a couple more flash search scripts...
http://www.flashkit.com/movies/Utilities/Search_W-Nenad_Ma-327/index.shtml
http://www.flashkit.com/movies/Scripting/XML/XML_Base-Sean_Car-2793/index.shtml
http://www.flashkit.com/movies/Scripting/Other/Actionsc-Sven_For-159/index.shtml


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Jeremiah
FreakScene - The Dinosaur Jr Audio/Visual Archive

This message has been edited by freakscene on January 05, 2001 at 08:11 AM