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AS3 Question

Thread posted 11/18/08 by Mykola Bilokonsky

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AS3 Question

Content:

I also sent this out in an email to the listserv. We'll see which gets answered first. ;)

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So I'm working on an ecommerce project here, and it's almost entirely complete. I am basically creating a PayPal "Buy Now" button in flash, and a part of that involves sending a bunch of URL Variables to paypal.

My problem is that one of the variables I have to use is called "return".

See my code snippet, attached.

I get this error:

"1084: Syntax error: expecting identifier before return.�"

I think Flash thinks I'm trying to use the "return" keyword to terminate the function.

Is there any way around this? Can I escape the keyword functionality of the word "return"? Alternately, does anyone know if PayPal offers an alternative keyword for use with AS3?

Code Snippet:

var buy:BuyNow = new BuyNow();
buy.x = 12;
buy.y = 50;
buy.buttonMode = true;

var payPalURL:URLRequest = new URLRequest("https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr");
            
var payPalLoader:URLLoader = new URLLoader();
var payPal:URLVariables = new URLVariables();
    payPal.cmd = "_xclick";
    payPal.business = "email@email.com";
    payPal.currency_code = "USD";
    payPal.upload = '1';
    payPal.instanceName = "buy";
    payPal.amount = String(item.itemPrice);
    payPal.handling = ".01";
    payPal.no_shipping = "1";
// the problem is right here - flash thinks "return" is ending the function.
    payPal.return = "http://www.gohereoncomplete.com/sold.php";
// everything else works fine
    payPal.rm="2";
    payPal.cancel_return = "http://www.gohereifcancel.com";
    payPal.item_name = String(item.itemName);
    payPal.item_number = String(item.itemID);
    
payPalURL.method = URLRequestMethod.POST;
payPalURL.data = payPal;
            
buy.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, function():void { 
        navigateToURL(payPalURL, "_blank");
});
        
addChild(buy);

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posted 11/19/08 by Mykola Bilokonsky
Problem solved, and on the ListServ no less! Apparently if you use Array notation to refer to a property of the URLVariables object it works fine. So payPal.return = "" is no good but payPal["return"] does the trick. Thanks Corey!
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