PHP variables to Flash MX Button?

djtech

Hi there. I'm new to this forum and this is my first post. I am in need of some help with the following:

I've made a flash button which goes to a url, however, I need to pass into the button a PHP variable (parameter) so that the target would change based on the variable.

the target URL would be something similar to this:

[FONT=courier new]http://www.myDomain.com/page.php?myVar=something[/FONT]

where the "myVar" value would change. In my Flash movie, I have tried:

[FONT=courier new]
on (release, dragOut){
getURL("page.php?myVar=$myVar", "_self", "GET");
}
[/FONT]

unfortunatley, I end up with the string "page.php?myVar=$myVar" as my URL.

Does anyone have a simple solution to this? I sure it is probably something simple, but I've never tried combining Flash with PHP before and I don't want to revert to using a standard HTML link. I have looked up using a dynamic text field, but everything I've found referes to using an external text file to load content.

Thanks in advance!

DJ Tech

Natty_Dreadlock

Actually i'm not very familiar with flash/php, although I think the syntax u r using (the string with the variable inside) is not workin in action script.
Maybe u just have to combine the strings usin some suitable operator (i don't know whether it's also the dot-operator like in php). So have a look at the flash doc and search for string operators.

djtech

Thanks N_D for your quick reply...
unfortunately, I still cannot get it to work. I don't find any operators I could use.

Any other suggestions out there?

DJ Tech

tsinka

Hi,

I think you would have to do it with javascript, e.g. in a php script.

<script language="JavaScript">
<!--
    var getParam ="<?PHP echo $myvar; ?>";
//-->
</script>

You can then read out that javascript variable with flash and use it.

Natty_Dreadlock

Check out this link, I guess on that page there's a solution (third parameter of getUrl):
http://sdc.shockwave.com/support/flash/action_scripts/actionscript_dictionary/actionscript_dictionary527.html
Hope that helps