# Storing variables from php

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**Created:** [January 14, 2009, 3:54am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/storing-variables-from-php/279379 "2009-01-14T03:54:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![stalefist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/838e76/32.png) [@stalefist](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/stalefist)\
**Post date:** [January 14, 2009, 3:54am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/storing-variables-from-php/279379/1 "2009-01-14T03:54:09Z")

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Hi, i’m trying to make a shoutbox/guestbook for my site in flash but i’m running into this problem. I’d like to have some sort of ip check, and i’ve got flash loading a var from php, and when I assign a text field the variable the users ip shows up just fine. my question is this-

how do i save whats in said text field as a string or something to use?