Need help AS3 navigateToURL opening new window

Question

AS3 noob here. I am using the following code to successfully send a var to my php/database. My problem is that, of course, when I click my button in the Flash movie the browser navigates away to the "http://www.mydomain.com/charity.php?id=c" url.

    function onPressHandlerc(evt:MouseEvent):void { 
    var url:String = "http://www.mydomain.com/charity.php?id=c";
    var request:URLRequest = new URLRequest(url);
    try {
    navigateToURL(request, '_blank');
    } catch (e:Error) {
    trace("Error occurred!");
    }
    } 

How do I set the navigateToURL() to not try to open a "_blank" window and just pass the var silently?

Thanks in advance for any help!

Answer 1

Ah think you actually want to use a URLLoader instead of navigateToURL for this case. navigateToURL is real similar to window.open in js if you're familiar, you want something more like AJAX I think which is where the URLLoader comes in.

http://help.adobe.com/en_US/FlashPlatform/reference/actionscript/3/flash/net/URLLoader.html

http://help.adobe.com/en_US/as3/dev/WS5b3ccc516d4fbf351e63e3d118a9b90204-7cfd.html#WS5b3ccc516d4fbf351e63e3d118a9b90204-7cf5