# Coordinating with PHP

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/coordinating-with-php/248740>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [January 11, 2008, 5:59am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/coordinating-with-php/248740 "2008-01-11T05:59:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![NeoDreamer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ccd318/32.png) [@NeoDreamer](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/NeoDreamer)\
**Post date:** [January 11, 2008, 5:59am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/coordinating-with-php/248740/1 "2008-01-11T05:59:53Z")

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If a SWF was placed in a PHP file, does it have the ability to read any of the PHP file’s variables? I would like to re-use a SWF on multiple PHP pages and have it behave differently based on certain conditions.

An example is a a PHP URL like showAnimation.php?picURL=http://www.site.com/image.jpg and the embedded SWF would do some crazy animation with the picture. How would the SWF be able to read $\_GET[‘picURL’] ?

If this is not possible, what other languages could Flash coordinate with? All I need is for Flash to read data from the page it’s embedded in.