A while ago I subscribed to an online magazine. Its a bit laddish, but it has the odd interesting article, and its done in flash/flex.

The most recent article arrived in my in-box the other day, and one of the pages was an advert for the new film 'eagle eye' rather unfortunately they had passed in your subscription name value as a flashVar in the URL scope.

This is probably one of the easiest ways to pass variables into flex, but also the most unsecure, and easily changed, as per the screen shot below. Luckily in this case it was just a display variable, but what about if this was a query param? or a value for a piece of data being sent back to a server?

There are many other ways of passing variables into flex apps, I'd go for using a properties file. Have your flex look for a server side XML definitions file on "creationComplete". Or edit your Embed/Object code, whilst still not ideal its far better than a url variable!

The magazine:
http://www.monkeymag.co.uk/

I'm lucky enough to be working in an environment that is small enough to allow me access to our whole suite of coldfusion cfc's. So i generally know pretty much what they all do, but what if your interrogating unknown cfc's?

Well you can use the init() method.

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Whilst writing a search function for a flex applicaiton I needed to be able to filter results back to flex from a remote cfc by a variety of criteria. Two of these were the month, and the year. So here's a handy way of doing it.

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