# AS & PHP variable question?

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**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [July 22, 2003, 4:10am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/as-php-variable-question/26334 "2003-07-22T04:10:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![sintax321](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@sintax321](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/sintax321)\
**Post date:** [July 22, 2003, 4:10am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/as-php-variable-question/26334/1 "2003-07-22T04:10:40Z")

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I’m working threw this tut “AS and PHP Made Easy” amd in the AS part of the tut he defines soem variables in flash with a “$” in front. Now i know this is required in PHP when use a varaiable but do u need them in AS?

Link to tut  
[http://www.kirupa.com/developer/actionscript/asandphp.htm](http://www.kirupa.com/developer/actionscript/asandphp.htm)

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 22, 2003, 4:20am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/as-php-variable-question/26334/2 "2003-07-22T04:20:56Z")

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no, not at all… it doesn’t hurt, but i don’t see why would he used the $ in flash, it just causes confusion. i’ve seen cases where a $ is used to indicate/note an internal property (in OOP)… 🙂

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 22, 2003, 4:22am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/as-php-variable-question/26334/3 "2003-07-22T04:22:38Z")

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k thats what i thought. if i did have the “$” on my varibels in flash is my variable “$var” or “var”? does flash reconize it and dissgreard it?

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 22, 2003, 4:32am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/as-php-variable-question/26334/4 "2003-07-22T04:32:21Z")

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$ is A legal character. $myVar would not refer to myVar, they’re simply two different variables =)

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 22, 2003, 4:33am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/as-php-variable-question/26334/5 "2003-07-22T04:33:56Z")

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ya thought so. Thanks for clearing up the confusion. YOu wil lbe seeing a ton more threads form me in here and the server side scri[ting secitons. I finaly got on a server with PHP so i’m learnign like crazy.

Thanks again Ahmed.

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 22, 2003, 4:36am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/as-php-variable-question/26334/6 "2003-07-22T04:36:35Z")

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no probs, glad to hear you’re getting into server-side flash, that’s my passion! 😛

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 22, 2003, 4:38am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/as-php-variable-question/26334/7 "2003-07-22T04:38:49Z")

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Do u happen to have nay links to some amzing tuts on XML, PHP, and Action Script. Like comunitcating between PHP and AS or AS and xml interaction?

The tuts on kirupa are ok but i need something with a little more substance.

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 22, 2003, 4:40am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/as-php-variable-question/26334/8 "2003-07-22T04:40:54Z")

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hm… i haven’t come across any, i learned most of my stuff from different books ☹

Try google, i’m sure you’ll find good ones on whatever topic you’re looking at =)

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 22, 2003, 4:41am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/as-php-variable-question/26334/9 "2003-07-22T04:41:42Z")

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Ya most ppl i’ve asked have said books. Thanks again:thumb:

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**Post date:** [July 22, 2003, 5:02am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/as-php-variable-question/26334/10 "2003-07-22T05:02:06Z")

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3 letters…FOE…

for those of you who dont understand…

FOE = friends of ed

thats all im sayin…