Another hidden away feature of Flash MX, this time a method of the LoadVars object. This little method, is the method that the LoadVars object uses internally to decode your name/value pairs into object properties and values...
LoadVars.decode is inherited by all instances of the LoadVars object. The Method accepts one argument, the argument is a string that contains name/value pairs, that you wish to be converted into object properties and associated values. Name/value pairs look like this:
| myvariable=value&myothervariable=anothervalue |
This hidden method, will convert the above name/value pairs into two properties 'myvariable' and 'myothervariable', the values of these properties are the associated values in the name/value pair string, so the value of 'myvariable' in the above string is 'value' and the value of 'myothervariable' in the above string is 'anothervalue'. Heres a little code example to show you what this method does:
| //create a new instance of the LoadVars object
myvars=new LoadVars() //call the method with our name/value pair string myvars.decode("name=Guy&age=18&icq=71063418") //iterate over all the properties in the 'myvars' object for(var i in myvars){ //trace the property name and property value trace(i+":"+myvars[i]) } |
The output of the above code is:
| name:Guy
age:18 icq:71063418 |
This method has not yet been added to the Macromedia Flash MX Actionscript Dictionary Errata.
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