It's been so long I don't know where to start..

[Blutimus]

I don't think this will be too hard, but I need a nudge in the right direction...
I want a flash movie to load different text files and picture sets based on a string passed in the URL. For example, user clicks on link "12-20-03" which looks like this:

<a href="http://mysite.com/myphp.php?date=122003"> 

An swf embedded in myphp.php will read the "date" variable and load the corresponding text file and pix.
My question - how do I get the swf to read that when the page in which it is embedded loads?

[JerryScript]

You will need to add the variables to the URL of the SWF file in the object and embed tags of your PHP output.

<?$MyVar='whatever';
print "<OBJECT classid=\"clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http://active.macromedia.com/flash2/cabs/swflash.cab#version=6,0,0,0\" ID=objects WIDTH=\"300\" HEIGHT=\"250\">
<PARAM NAME=movie VALUE=\"draw.swf?MyVar=$MyVar\">
<EMBED src=\"draw.swf?MyVar=$MyVar\" WIDTH=\"300\" HEIGHT=\"250\" TYPE=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" PLUGINSPAGE=\"http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash\">
</OBJECT>
";

Happy Holidays!
Jerry

[Blutimus]

Okay I have the PHP working and the date is being passed to the page as it does display correctly on the 'dates.php' page. However I cannot get the variable to pass into Flash. Here is my code:

First the PHP script. I have also used the $HTTP_GET_VARS method of frabbing the variable that is passed to via the hypelink to this page.

<?php $_GET['date'];  print $date; 
print"<OBJECT classid=\"clsidD27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http://active.macromedia.com/flash2/cabs/swflash.cab#version=6,0,0,0\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\">
<param name=movie value=\"bf_dates.swf?date=$date\">
<param name=\"quality\" value=\"high\">
<param name=\"menu\" value=\"false\">
<embed src=\"bf_dates.swf?date=$date\" quality=high pluginspage=\"http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash\" type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" menu=\"false\"> 
</embed> </object>";?>

And the Flash actionscript:

if (date eq "") {
	loadVariables("default.txt", "");
} else {
	loadVariables(date and ".txt", "");
}

It seems so simple. I'm probably missing one little thing...