Passing a variable from director

[Anon]

Hi Guys,

I am a total newbie to php, so this is probably going to sound like a pretty stupid question!

I work predominently with Macromedia Director and Flash, I need to pass a variable from Director to a text file on my server.

Currently I have, and try not to laugh,

<?php
$basic = fopen("text.txt", "a+");
fputs($basic, $testVariable);
fclose($basic);
?>

testVariable is the name of my variable in Director.

Any help would be so greatfully appreciated!!

Thanks in advance.