# Sending variables with IEs crappy work around?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/sending-variables-with-ies-crappy-work-around/217822>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [March 2, 2007, 4:50am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/sending-variables-with-ies-crappy-work-around/217822 "2007-03-02T04:50:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![fantim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/cc9497/32.png) [@fantim](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/fantim)\
**Post date:** [March 2, 2007, 4:50am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/sending-variables-with-ies-crappy-work-around/217822/1 "2007-03-02T04:50:37Z")

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ok so we’ve all seen the thing on IE where you have to click on the embeded object to activate it. It sucks. So now we’re all using the Javascript that macromedia provided (or something similar).  
My question is this:  
We used to be able to send variables to the SWF file through the embed. For example

```php
src="flash.swf?variable1=2"

```

So I was wondering if there was a way to do something similar with the new IE work arounds?