# Possible to Manually set variables in a URL?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/possible-to-manually-set-variables-in-a-url/150253>\
**Category:** programming\
**Created:** [June 6, 2005, 9:49am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/possible-to-manually-set-variables-in-a-url/150253 "2005-06-06T09:49:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![Bodom78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/aca169/32.png) [@Bodom78](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Bodom78)\
**Post date:** [June 6, 2005, 9:49am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/possible-to-manually-set-variables-in-a-url/150253/1 "2005-06-06T09:49:12Z")

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Is it possible to have my flash movie read in a URL variable thats manually typed in for example:

[http://localhost/index.php?name=johnsmith](http://localhost/index.php?name=johnsmith)

So if I send this to a friend, the text field will read in john smith

that way I can send this link to individual people and by altering the name variable each person will see their name appear in the flash document.

I can get php to print out the variable from the url, but flash only seems to read it in when I hard code the name variable inside the php document ☹

Cheers.