[SWFObject] Ampersands and addVariable Parameters

[Jim Blakeslee]

I am doing:

so.addVariable("mapitlabel",escape("Tony & Joe's Seafood Place"));

but the Flash is still seeing the string as just "Tony"

see page here:
http://www.georgetowndc.com/mapit.php?id=1102


Geoff Stearns wrote:
> you have to escape ant special chars:
>
> so.addVariable("url", escape("yoururlstring"));
>
> OR, if you are using double-byte chars (like most asian languages) you 
> can use encodeURIComponent() instead of encode.
>
>
>
>
> On Oct 6, 2006, at 5:15 PM, Jose R. Rodriguez (JRVisuals,LLC) wrote:
>
>> Hi there,
>>  
>>     Still searching the archives on this one but...
>>  
>>     I'm having problems passing a parameter in via addVariable. The 
>> value ( a URL containing name/value pairs) is being truncated at the 
>> first ampersand.
>>  
>>     Any ideas?
>>  
>>     Many thanks,
>>                             - JR
>>  
>>  
>>  
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