# Can Flash detect PHP?

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/can-flash-detect-php/159968
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [August 22, 2005, 12:16pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/can-flash-detect-php/159968 "2005-08-22T12:16:03Z")
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### Author: ![skOOb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8dc957/32.png) [@skOOb](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/skOOb)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2005, 12:16pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/can-flash-detect-php/159968/1 "2005-08-22T12:16:03Z")

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[font=Tahoma]Is there a way within actionscript to figure out if it can use PHP or not? So if a user installs this on a webserver, for my Flash program to detect whether this server/computer is setup to handle PHP. I was thinking during setup that a certain var in my XML file be set, saying whether or not that it is. I just want to make sure there is no programmable way to detect this.[/font]  
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[font=Tahoma]Any help appreciated,[/font]  
[font=Tahoma]the skOObs[/font]