# Can't dislplay Dynamic Text Pls Help
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/cant-dislplay-dynamic-text-pls-help/9302
**Category:** programming
**Created:** [December 9, 2002, 12:27pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/cant-dislplay-dynamic-text-pls-help/9302 "2002-12-09T12:27:45Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@overflow](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/overflow)
#### Post date: [December 9, 2002, 12:27pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/cant-dislplay-dynamic-text-pls-help/9302/1 "2002-12-09T12:27:45Z")
do the same thing as it is shown in the tutorial but still the dynamic text area is empty when I run the page.
I will write the things step by step so you may tell me about the problem
I open my flash5
I create a new empty text area
I switch to dynamic text
Single line is sleceted
I select HTML and Border/Bg
I enter test as a variable name
Then I select the text area and convert it to a movie clip symbol
Then I right click on the symbol and click actions
I add the actions and the line looks like this
onClipEvent (load) {
loadVariables (“[http://localhost/test.php](http://localhost/test.php)”, “this”, “GET”);
}
Then I create the php file which looks exactly like this
$x = “abc”;
print $x;
print “test=$x”;
?\>
Then I click publish in flash, it generates the files and when I goto [http://localhost/test.html](http://localhost/test.html) I see the text area I created but it is empty.
I am nearly going mad I couldn’t find what is wrong, someone pls help me
Thanks
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 9, 2002, 2:23pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/cant-dislplay-dynamic-text-pls-help/9302/2 "2002-12-09T14:23:33Z")
For Flash to read test as a variable you have to put a & in front of it…the PHP should look like this:
```php
```
that should work…
Oh, and just curious, why do you ‘print $x’ ? I don’t think that step is needed…might be wrong tho…I tested it myself and it did not work with that print $x… take that out…
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 9, 2002, 2:42pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/cant-dislplay-dynamic-text-pls-help/9302/3 "2002-12-09T14:42:04Z")
Sorry but that didn’t work
I just worte print $x because I wanted to make sure I wrote same as the tutorial says
If you look at this page there is no & infont of myvar
[http://www.kirupa.com/developer/actionscript/flash\_php\_mysql.asp](http://www.kirupa.com/developer/actionscript/flash_php_mysql.asp)
Anyway I tried putting a & in front of my variable but it still displays the text filed empty
Thanks alot
I am still looking forward to hear your advices
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 9, 2002, 2:45pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/cant-dislplay-dynamic-text-pls-help/9302/4 "2002-12-09T14:45:02Z")
Do you have your own website or host? Because you would need to change the [http://localhost/test.php](http://localhost/test.php) to your own webdomain…
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 9, 2002, 2:52pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/cant-dislplay-dynamic-text-pls-help/9302/5 "2002-12-09T14:52:33Z")
Usually I work at my own computer I mean localhost.But I tried uploading the files to a server.Sure I removed the localhost part.But it didn’t work
Thanks
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 9, 2002, 2:54pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/cant-dislplay-dynamic-text-pls-help/9302/6 "2002-12-09T14:54:25Z")
well I have to go to class…hopefully someone will get it working for you…
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 9, 2002, 2:59pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/cant-dislplay-dynamic-text-pls-help/9302/7 "2002-12-09T14:59:16Z")
I hope ☹
If someone can send me a working example of what I need, I think it would be easier to compare what you did and what I did.
Thanks
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 9, 2002, 3:52pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/cant-dislplay-dynamic-text-pls-help/9302/8 "2002-12-09T15:52:04Z")
well I decided to ditch class, I’ll see what I can come up with…
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 9, 2002, 3:56pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/cant-dislplay-dynamic-text-pls-help/9302/9 "2002-12-09T15:56:29Z")
Got it to work on my machine.
Flash Code is in the first frame and then the DYNAMIC text box is in the 5th frame:
```php
if (nTest ne "") {
gotoAndPlay (5);
} else {
loadVariables ("http://www.livetoskateboard.com/curious/test.php", "");
}
```
PHP Code:
```php
```
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 9, 2002, 4:02pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/cant-dislplay-dynamic-text-pls-help/9302/10 "2002-12-09T16:02:54Z")
I couldn’t open the file, I get an error “unexpected file format”
I think I am cursed or something
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 9, 2002, 4:03pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/cant-dislplay-dynamic-text-pls-help/9302/11 "2002-12-09T16:03:55Z")
sorry that is in Flash MX format…you’re running flash 5…let me make up a new FLA…
(stupid on my part I should have asked which version you were using first…:))
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 9, 2002, 4:04pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/cant-dislplay-dynamic-text-pls-help/9302/12 "2002-12-09T16:04:51Z")
Here’s the new file:
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 9, 2002, 4:14pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/cant-dislplay-dynamic-text-pls-help/9302/13 "2002-12-09T16:14:22Z")
Ok I could open the file this time.
But here comes another adventure
I publised the file without touching it and the screen was again blank
[http://www.livetoskateboard.com/curious/test.php](http://www.livetoskateboard.com/curious/test.php) is working
and your flash file should be working so where is the problem I can’t figure out.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 9, 2002, 4:22pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/cant-dislplay-dynamic-text-pls-help/9302/14 "2002-12-09T16:22:10Z")
Did you try just testing the movie within Flash? Pressing (Conrol+ENTER)
I included the file again…Didn’t change much tho…it works fine for me…not sure why it isn’t working for you…
It works here:
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