# Passing variable to flash

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/passing-variable-to-flash/11790>\
**Category:** programming\
**Created:** [January 22, 2003, 9:24am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/passing-variable-to-flash/11790 "2003-01-22T09:24:43Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
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**Author:** ![Sonic98](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f07891/32.png) [@Sonic98](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Sonic98)\
**Post date:** [January 22, 2003, 9:24am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/passing-variable-to-flash/11790/1 "2003-01-22T09:24:43Z")

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[http://www.kirupa.com/developer/actionscript/flash\_php\_mysql.asp](http://www.kirupa.com/developer/actionscript/flash_php_mysql.asp)

The tutorial on the site for passing a value to a flash movie does not work for me. I don’t get anything passed to the text field. What other methods are there?