Links in a txt file not showing in dynamic text field

[Darren600]

Hi

can anyone help with this. I have a dynamic text field rendered as html text.
I have a txt. file called "end_use.txt" that loads into the dynamic text field with the following inside of it:

myText=<a href="http://www.mkdenial.com/login.cfm">Denied Parties Screening Tool (MK Data Denial List)</a>
<a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/">BBC</a>
<a href="http://ldn0a007.eua.mitsui.com/intranet/browse.php?sess=0&parent=129&expand=1&order=name&c urview=0&sortname=ASC">TEST</a>

The problem is the third link [that is an internal link to a page on our intranet site on our server ldn0a007] doesn't appear in the dynamic text field.
I'm wondering if it has something to do with the fact it isn't a www link and has a ref to a php file on our sever.

Here is the actionscript I have in the fla:

loadText=new loadVars();
loadText=load("end_use.txt");
loadText.onLoad=function(){
text.htmlText=this.myText
}
;

This loads the txt file into the dynamic text field and displays the www links OK, but as I say not the third link [that's Internal]

The questions is, can I make internal links without www in them appear in a dynamic text field from a txt file and be linkable?

[Sgaspar11]

I don't see why not. It is essentially calling the a link, it shouldn't matter what the link is. Although, this is not something I am totally familiar with.

I'll do some research,

Scott

[Darren600]

Hi Scott,

thanks for the quick reply. In fact I shortened the link just to point to our server: "http://ldn0a007.eua.mitsui.com" it worked, so no probs with internal links. However as soon as I entered the rest of the link with the php ref in it it breaks. Mustt be a conflict with flash looking at the link as html, but the php ref in there is causing it to bust, maybe???

[Sgaspar11]

Edit: Nevermind, just re-read you statement and it goes to a page.

Good morning,

So are they clicking on this link to download a file? just curious, still looking into it.

Cheers,

Scott

[Darren600]

Yeah, most of the links point to word and excel files that sit in various dept folders on the 'backend file repository of our intranet site.

[Darren600]

Hi Scott,


think I know what is causing it but cannot resolve it.

It appears the '&'s in the link are stopping the text directly after it from rendering. As when I remove the '&'s in the link the text appears.
Then I thought all I have to do is embed the '&' and the link will appear.

But no. Embedding the '&' or indeed all glyphs doesn't work

Do you know how to successfully embed the '&' s?

[Sgaspar11]

Sorry Darren, I haven't had much experience doing this. I'll keep looking when I have time but maybe one of the other admins might have an idea.

[Darren600]

Hi Scott,

got it bud,

It appears the apersand '&'s in Flash are a special symbol 'reserved'
I replaced them with the uni-code for & which is %26. It now works a treat.

So people,
if you are loading a txt file into a dynamic text box rendered as html and the links in the txt file have &'s in them and they are not showing in the dynamic text box, replace the &'s with %26.
Also the + and other signs are special symbols. So just look for their relevant unicode number and insert that instead!

Vola!

[Sgaspar11]

Nice! Glad you got it working, and thanks for sharing with all of us!