Pass Path through URL to Flash Object

rsmith

Hey everyone,
Not sure if this can be done or not but what I'm looking to do is when a user clicks on a link on my site to retrieve and audio file, I want the information to be passed to a flash player that will play the song. The links are setup similar to this:

<a href="play-audio.php?trackID=x">

Where x is obviously a number. Now I know I can use the $GET and $POST (in this case because it's passed through a url $_GET) variables to the movie but to my knowledge PHP script doesn't work in flash so I'm not sure how to query for the path inside the .swf so that the playSound() function will work.

What's the best way to go about what i'm looking to do?

TIA

doomshell

hello,
Well i just joined this forum today and yes this is possible for Flash to take the value from the php file.
Do you have the Flash file on the same php file or you are using at different place.

We are doing the Flash game development in Flash with PHP and mySQL

With Regards
Vikas solanki

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rsmith

What I'm doing is this. A user clicks on the link which takes them to play-audio.php which has the flash audio player embedded in it. Would I do all my php functions -- $_GET, db queries, variable definition -- above the embed and then call the variables in the flash? Or is it possible to do all of that in the Flash file itself? I'm not familiar with actionscript so this is new territory for me.

Thanks for the quick response, all help appreciated.