# Popup Window Variable to Browser?
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/popup-window-variable-to-browser/60661
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [August 11, 2004, 1:28pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/popup-window-variable-to-browser/60661 "2004-08-11T13:28:05Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@RichGags](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/RichGags)
#### Post date: [August 11, 2004, 1:28pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/popup-window-variable-to-browser/60661/1 "2004-08-11T13:28:05Z")
I have created a picture gallery within Flash with 20 or so small pictures. When I click on a picture, I would like to open a page called “picture.html” with attributes. Ive got it working, sort-of, with the following code I found here on this site (thanks! by the way)
in my button I have:
on (release) {
//customize the window that gets opened
// 0 equals NO.
// 1 equals YES.
address = “picture.html”;
target\_winName = “kirupa”;
width = 800;
height = 500;
toolbar = 0;
location = 0;
directories = 0;
status = 0;
menubar = 0;
scrollbars = 1;
resizable = 0;
//sends data back to the function
openWinCentre(address, target\_winName, width, height, toolbar, location, directories, status, menubar, scrollbars, resizable);
}
…and in a Actions layer, I have:
\_global.openWinCentre = function(url, winName, w, h, toolbar, location, directories, status, menubar, scrollbars, resizable) {
getURL(“javascript:window.open(’”+url+"’,’"+winName+"’,’"+“width=”+w+",height="+h+",toolbar="+toolbar+",location="+location+",directories="+directories+",status="+status+",menubar="+menubar+",scrollbars="+scrollbars+",resizable="+resizable+",top=’+((screen.height/2)-("+h/2+"))+’,left=’+((screen.width/2)-("+w/2+"))+’"+"’);void(0);");
};
Anyway, its working fine, except I would like to know if its possible to have only 1 “picture.html” file for all my 20 pictures in the photo gallery.
I know that somewhere within picture.html, I need to open an image.jpg. I would like to pass the big picture’s file name to the picture.html page from the flash button. So, how would I pass “picture1.jpg” to “picture.html”, and within “picture.html” how would I open an image from a variable?
Thanks in advance!
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 11, 2004, 4:41pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/popup-window-variable-to-browser/60661/2 "2004-08-11T16:41:56Z")
You need server side scripting for that.
In PHP it would look something like:
```php
```
now pass the variable picurl via the get string to picture.php
[AS]
address = “picture.php?picurl=picture1.jpg”;
[/AS]
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 11, 2004, 4:47pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/popup-window-variable-to-browser/60661/3 "2004-08-11T16:47:32Z")
Thanks for your help. Now how do I set up the server side scripting? or how would I know if its already there?
Rich
> [@cycom](#):
>
> You need server side scripting for that.
>
> In PHP it would look something like:
>
> ```php
>
>
>
> ```
>
> now pass the variable picurl via the get string to picture.php
>
> [AS]
> address = “picture.php?picurl=picture1.jpg”;
> [/AS]
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 11, 2004, 5:44pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/popup-window-variable-to-browser/60661/4 "2004-08-11T17:44:57Z")
To test if PHP is running on the server upload a file named ‘test.php’ and put \ in it.
When you open that file through the server it should show a lot of information about PHP and which version the server is running and whatnot. If you see nothing - bad luck :hair:
To run PHP locally (on your computer) you’ll need to install an apache server and php, which can be quite tricky. :h:
There’s a package called phpdev, try googling for it, it installs and configures apache + php ( + mySQL) pretty nicely.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 11, 2004, 5:47pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/popup-window-variable-to-browser/60661/5 "2004-08-11T17:47:19Z")
Thanks!