New to flash & struggling

[fatpeter]

As the title says I have never touched flash until today. I have made my first thing. A small 700 by 150 animated advert which I am serving up using phpads to a website I have. I am pretty pleased with the results but I had a fair bit of trouble implementing with phpads. I have a button with a link in it to the advertising website. I have managed to get that far but I want the website receiving to be able to see my website as the referrer. At the moment it comes up "No referring url" I have spent the last 2 hours searching for a solution with no luck! Does anyone have some "action code" that goes with the link to do this? Any help would be appreciated for a flash virgin :)

[oxbaker]

the referre must be handled by your server side code. Usually you use a 3rd party company to serve the ads and they handle it. However if you want a quick fix thats flash based you can attach the referring url to the querystring

like:
on(release){
getUrl("http://www.thedestination.com?ref=thereferrerurl.com");
}

hth,
mcm

[fatpeter]

Thanks for that. The quick fix was exactly what I wanted. I think my problem is more in learning how to use phpads properly. There is a way to track flash links, I just haven't worked it out yet! :)

[oxbaker]

yes you should definately learn that better as it is more robust and handles fake clicks, impressions etc. You dont want to re-invent the wheel here.