# PHP to Flash - HTML Text Formating?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/php-to-flash-html-text-formating/125003>\
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**Created:** [October 8, 2004, 7:36pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/php-to-flash-html-text-formating/125003 "2004-10-08T19:36:08Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 8, 2004, 7:36pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/php-to-flash-html-text-formating/125003/1 "2004-10-08T19:36:08Z")

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I am trying to load text from a string in a PHP file to a dynamic text field in Flash. I have the dynamic field set so it can accept html tags, but for some reason it is outputing the “\<p\>” and \</p\> tags in the text field. The PHP file compiles a string from 20 forms and puts it into one, so I need each of the 20 forms to be a new paragraph. Take a look at my code and tell me what you think. Thanks for any help.

```php
 
 
<?php 
//mysql_connect("servername","username","password"); 
//mysql_select_db("dbname"); 
$databaseID = mysql_connect("localhost", "root", "ui0p0iu") or die("Failed to connect to localhost"); 
$result = mysql_select_db("drreed") or die ("Failed to connect"); 
 
$listings = "SELECT * FROM content"; 
$get_listings = mysql_query($listings) or die ("get listings query failed"); 
$counter = 0; 
$actualCounter = 0; 
while ($row4=mysql_fetch_array($get_listings)) 
{ 
	$counter++; 
	if ($counter == 1) 
		$printCounter = ""; 
	else 
		$printCounter = $counter; 
	$temp = "p".$counter; 
	if ($row4[$temp] != "") 
	{ 
		$actualCounter++; 
		echo '&my_title'.$printCounter.'=<p>'.$row4['title']. '</p>'; 
		echo '&my_date'.$printCounter.'=<p>'.$row4['date']. '</p>'; 
		echo '&my_article'.$printCounter.'=<p>'.$row4['title'].'</p>'; 
		for($x = 1; $x <= 20 ; $x++) 
		{ 
			$temp2='p'.$x; 
			if ($row4[$temp2] != '') 
				echo '<p>'.$row4[$temp2].'</p>'; 
		} 
	} 
} 
 
$rString = "&num=".$actualCounter."&"; 
echo $rString; 
 
?> 
 

```

Here’s the AS of the frame:

```auto
 [left]myData = new LoadVars();

myData.load("admin/data.php", my_lv, "POST");
myData.onLoad = function(success)
{
if(success)
{
_root.article.textbox_article.text = this.my_article;
}
}
 
stop();

```

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[left]And the AS of the movie that the dynamic textbox is in:[/left]

[left]

```auto
 [left][left]onClipEvent (load){

 
myData = new LoadVars();
myData.load("admin/data.php", my_lv, "POST");
myData.onLoad = function(success)
{
if(success)
{
_root.article.textbox_article.text = this.my_article;
}
}
[left][/left]
scrolling = 0;
frameCounter = 1;
speedFactor = 3;
 
}
 
onClipEvent (enterFrame){
 
if( frameCounter % speedFactor == 0){
 
if( scrolling == "up" && textbox_article.scroll > 1){
 
textbox_article.scroll--;
 
}
 
 
else if( scrolling == "down" && textbox_article.scroll < textbox_article.maxscroll){
 
textbox_article.scroll++;
 
}
 
frameCounter = 0;
}
 
frameCounter++;
}
[left][/left]
stop();

[/left]

```

[/left]

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