# Loading a variable into flash from PHP

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-a-variable-into-flash-from-php/146053
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**Created:** [April 27, 2005, 9:30pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-a-variable-into-flash-from-php/146053 "2005-04-27T21:30:35Z")
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### Author: ![rhinovalley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/3da27b/32.png) [@rhinovalley](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/rhinovalley)
#### Post date: [April 27, 2005, 9:30pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-a-variable-into-flash-from-php/146053/1 "2005-04-27T21:30:35Z")

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Hello,

I originally posted this at Flashkit but I never got a response from them. Could somebody help me out with this. [font=verdana, arial, helvetica][size=2] I have a simple (I hope) question for all of your php and actionscript programers out there. I want to beable to load a variable from a php script into my flash like the following. On my first frame in my flash movie I have

```auto

flash = 1;
loadVariables("variables.php", 0, "GET");

```

then, on my 20th frame, I have this script:  
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```auto

if (flash == 1) {
 gotoAndPlay (5);
} else {
 loadMovieNum (flash, 1);
 stop ();
}

```

[font=verdana, arial, helvetica][size=2] the if (flash == 1) is just to make sure that the variables.php file has loaded and if it hasn’t then the value will still equal 1 until the variables from the file are loaded.[/size][/font]

```php

<?php
$flash = "sound.swf";
$flash = "&flash=$flash";
?>

```

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[/size][/font][font=verdana, arial, helvetica][size=2] Shouldn’t all of this together load the value of sound.swf for flash, thus loading sound.swf into layer 1 of my movie? When I load it onto my server, (I do have php on there) it just loops the movie back to frame 5 and keeps playing it. The value of “flash” doesn’t change at all. Can somebody help me with this and lead my through this challenge? Any help would be apreciated!

Thanx![/size][/font][font=verdana, arial, helvetica][size=2]  
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