flash variables

[Anon]

Lost Again,
I'm working with flash4 and php3. i'm trying to create a simple html form that authenticates a user+password against the database and then retrieves the member id of the user which is the main key field in the database linking all the tables together. This is pretty simple and works fine. The problem is when I try to send this member id to flash, because the variable gets lost in the way. In simple terms, the way flash retrieves variables is by loading into the movie from a script but this script has lost the variable already. How can I keep a php variable when i enter the flash movie? How can I track this user? Please help me!!!
Huacjo

[Anon]

You need to do your authentication thru flash as well. There's no good way to pass variables from PHP to Flash unless Flash requests it.

So set up a form in flash to get the username and password. Send that to php (/path/to/some.php) and php returns the id to flash: print "id=1234&eof=1";

[Anon]

OK that's what I thought. My only idea is to try and store the variables somewhere in either php or the database so flash can access it. Does it mean that if you move from one page to another you have to lose the variables unless you send them as the action of a form?
I don't know enough but I think it's got to do with how you athenticate the users. Probably sessions?
Thanx a lot anyway.