Loading variables into flash from a php file

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Hi guys.
I wonder this has been discussed many times & having gone through many such answers I still seem not to get a reply to my problem.

So i have a program in flash, which generates a button which when clicked gets a set of variables from a php file called testdata.php.

Now this tesfile.php when run standalone generates correct values of variables & displays them.

However when i change it to be able to send it to a flash file ( make changes in
echo “&db_w_var1=$db_val1”; ) like this. the values I receive in flash are odd. in fact i get this $db_val1"; exactly this for the first variable. I get this string instead of receiving an integer value 4 or maybe even a string value ‘4’.

So can anyone looking at this tell me what could be going wrong. The following is **a part of **code which calls the php file to get the value of variables:

    var w_WS;        // Database returned Written Sums    var w_WT;        // Database returned Written Time
    var w_ST;        // Database returned Sum Type ( written or visual or oral)
    var w_end;
    
    lv1.dataType = "written";
    lv1.w_sums_correct= w_sums_correct;
    lv1.w_time = w_time;
    
/////////// for localhost ///////////////////    
    lv1.sendAndLoad(path+"testdata.php",lvIn1,"POST"); // sends data values of lv1 variabless
                                                      // and GETS lvIn1 value
/////////// for display on a webpage (_blank) ///////////////////
//    lv1.send(path + "sessdata1.php", "_blank", "POST"); // or GET


    lvIn1.onLoad = function(success){
        if(success){
            w_WS = lvIn1.db_w_var1;
            w_WT = lvIn1.db_w_var2;
            w_ST = lvIn1.db_w_var3;            
            w_end = lvIn1.db_w_end; 
                    
        written_data = " WT = "+w_WT;    //  " WS = "+w_WS + "  Type = "+w_ST + "End = "+w_end; 
        }    // end success

Thanks to all for any help. This has me losing my brains. please help the gurus.