Passing Variable question...

[jalmeida]

I am in the middle of a rather gigantic project (it's taken about 6 months of development) and have run into an issue... The project involves a system that allows forms to be filled out and stored in a database. I have written the entire project as an intranet app using Flash, PHP, and MySQL. The system also handles many cash related funtions (a lot of accounting). The customer requested a calculator that will figure out an amount that processing a form would cost. I wrote it - now however the data needs to get from the calculator to the form as the customer does not want to do "double entry".

The forms however are the issue - they have all been created with an instance name and then popluated or ripped with .text . For example

theTextfield.text="content";

Now the problem is that I am opening the forms from PHP and want to use a GET type method of sending a few variables. Normally I could use:

http://website/form.swf?variable=value

However I can't send:

http://website/form.swf?instance.text=1000

Any thoughts, I am trying to find a way around writing excessive code as this application is due in 2 days...

Thanks in advance for your assistance!

Best Regards
James Almeida

[jalmeida]

I figured out a way to get around the problem... It's a bit "dirty" but here is all I could think of...

Send the variable from PHP as:

variable="value1,value2,value3..."

within Flash take the variable and split it to an array then from an array that lists the correct path for each text instance assign the data to the fields.

I am guessing it stumped just about everyone who looked at this email since there were no replies. I thought since I found a way I should post it...

Thanks anyway!

Jim Almeida