# Communication between 2 swf files using php

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**Created:** [October 24, 2008, 1:00am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/communication-between-2-swf-files-using-php/274037 "2008-10-24T01:00:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![rikiu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/6bbea6/32.png) [@rikiu](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/rikiu)\
**Post date:** [October 24, 2008, 1:00am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/communication-between-2-swf-files-using-php/274037/1 "2008-10-24T01:00:10Z")

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what im trying to do basically is have swf1 on computer 1 when i press a button in the swf it uses fwrite to write something into a text file. for my example lets say it wrote the number 30 into it and saved it.

now swf2 has a layer on it that runs a check of that file with php post i guess or w/e would be the most effective way to get the string from the text file from the server. it opens the file and takes 30 and makes it into a variable and w/e that variable is swf2 uses gotoAndPlay(variable);