# Passing variable to flash

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/passing-variable-to-flash/288630
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**Created:** [May 19, 2009, 7:12am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/passing-variable-to-flash/288630 "2009-05-19T07:12:42Z")
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### Author: ![kamikaze5141](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e68b1a/32.png) [@kamikaze5141](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/kamikaze5141)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2009, 7:12am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/passing-variable-to-flash/288630/1 "2009-05-19T07:12:42Z")

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what i’m trying to do is to pass a value to a flash from html page…  
(from html to \_\_nameSWFVariable)  
following is my code :

in html :

```php
<object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=9,0,28,0" width="600" height="710">
            <param name="movie" value="lightning.swf?name=John" />
            <param name="quality" value="high" />
            <embed src="lightning.swf?name=John" quality="high" pluginspage="http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="600" height="710"></embed>
          </object>

```

in flash(lightning.swf) :

> var \_\_nameSWFVariable:String;  
> \_\_nameSWFVariable = ‘name’;

[Inspectable(type=“String”, defaultValue=“”)]  
public function set nameSWFVariable(nameSWFVariable:String):void {  
\_\_nameSWFVariable = nameSWFVariable;  
}

public function get nameSWFVariable():String {  
return \_\_nameSWFVariable;  
}

am i doing the right thing ?
