ActionScript 2.0 :: Variable Names Sent Via POST?
Nov 14, 2009
I'm working on a simple form in AS2 that will send some variables via POST. These are being sent to a CMS in the background. Unfortunately, the CMS mandates that the variables must be named a certain way. They must be named fields[thefieldname] which really messes up the Actionscript involved. Does anyone have any thoughts about how I could escape these [ ] characters so they don't get interpreted wrongly as an Array by actionscript?
Code:
on (release) {
var msg:LoadVars = new LoadVars();
[code]......
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