# Html link in flash and variables

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**Created:** [February 4, 2007, 4:09pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/html-link-in-flash-and-variables/215119 "2007-02-04T16:09:10Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 4, 2007, 4:09pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/html-link-in-flash-and-variables/215119/1 "2007-02-04T16:09:10Z")

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I made an application which loads external xml files an put them inside a textfield using htmlText. Now the text contains a few links, and I was wondering if I could give information from a link to a flash variable.

Like when you have a link in that textfield: \<a href="&name=johnny"\>link\</a\> and when you click it fills a variable named: “name” with the value “johnny”.  
This way I could connect to the MySQL database and get the information about “johnny” and display it. 🙂

I’ve searched google, but I found only resources about external links and getting values into flash variables.