# Sending data to php

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**Created:** [July 19, 2003, 7:56am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/sending-data-to-php/26085 "2003-07-19T07:56:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![javadi82](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/3be4f8/32.png) [@javadi82](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/javadi82)\
**Post date:** [July 19, 2003, 7:56am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/sending-data-to-php/26085/1 "2003-07-19T07:56:11Z")

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What is the problem with the following .fla which tries to send data from flash to php?

The php script is as follows:

\<?php

$name=HTTP\_POST\_VARS[‘name’];  
$comments=HTTP\_POST\_VARS[‘comments’];

echo $comments  
?\>

I get the following error when the .swf and .php are hosted on the [lycos.co.uk](http://lycos.co.uk) server:

Parse error: parse error in /data/members/free/tripod/uk/m/y/p/myperception/htdocs/sendtophp.php on line 3

Please download the .fla and help.

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 19, 2003, 7:57am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/sending-data-to-php/26085/2 "2003-07-19T07:57:56Z")

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sorry echo $comments;  
just a typo but that is not the error;

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 19, 2003, 8:05am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/sending-data-to-php/26085/3 "2003-07-19T08:05:27Z")

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```php
<?
$name= $_POST['name'];
$comments= $_POST['comments'];

echo $comments;
?>

```

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 19, 2003, 8:21am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/sending-data-to-php/26085/4 "2003-07-19T08:21:12Z")

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to ahmed:Thank you so much! I was so delighted to see Flash send data to php. Your reply solved the problem

Could you tell me what HTTP\_POST\_VARS and $\_POST are? Also I saw something like:HTTP\_RAW\_POST\_VARS.

Thanks again for the help, ahmed

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 19, 2003, 8:33am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/sending-data-to-php/26085/5 "2003-07-19T08:33:59Z")

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glad it worked 😉

$\_POST is simply a rename for the old $HTTP\_POST\_VARS… the php community thought that the array’s name was too long, so they replaced it by a shorter one 🙂

about the http\_raw\_post\_vars, i didn’t deal with that before, but you’re welcome to look it up on the [php.net](http://php.net) documentation :beam:

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 19, 2003, 12:53pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/sending-data-to-php/26085/6 "2003-07-19T12:53:41Z")

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usefull for xml, set to off be default…