hi all, i seem to be stuck on this, what im trying to do is show an external image on a flash file, so far im able to do this i have the following code and it works ok:

<?
/ DEFINE THE USER: /
$user_startimage='http://www.spacetelescope.org/projects/img/heic0108_img_process.jpg';

?><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<title>loader</title>
</head>
<body bgcolor="#ffffff">
<!--url's used in the movie-->
<!--text used in the movie-->
<!--
<p align="left"></p>
-->
<!-- saved from url=(0013)about:internet -->
<object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase="http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=8,0,0,0" width="550" height="400" id="loader" align="middle">
<param name="allowScriptAccess" value="sameDomain" />
<param name="movie" value="loader.swf?image=<?php echo $user_startimage; ?>" /><param name="quality" value="high" /><param name="bgcolor" value="#ffffff" /><embed src="loader.swf?image=<?php echo $user_startimage; ?>" quality="high" bgcolor="#ffffff" width="550" height="400" name="loader" align="middle" allowScriptAccess="sameDomain" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" />
</object>
</body>
</html>

but the question is, how can i change the variable path ($user_startimage) without having to go to the source code, in other words via a browser window? thank you all in advance for your help.

    you could do something like...

    if (isset($_GET['img'])) {
    $user_startimage='projects/img/'.$_GET['img'].'.jpg';
} else {
    $user_startimage='projects/img/heic0108_img_process.jpg';
}

    then you could pass the image to the page via the url.... something like...

    http://www.spacetelescope.org/page.php?img=new_image

      so lets say i have a flash tutorial , and at the begining of the flash tutorial i want to show a diferent image that i will change lets say based on the day ($user_startimage) the questions is how can i change this image via a web browser without editing the php file in source code, in other words via a admin page, thank you again.

        well, then your going to need to store the name of the image. either in a database, or a text file is probably simplest.

        you'll need to read up on [man]fopen[/man], [man]fwrite[/man] and related functions in the manual.

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