Variables within Flash MX

Flas and variables - if else statements

I’m new to flash and seem to have a problem with variables brought over from php.

I have a main movie loading in two other swf’s - one just gets the data from php on a loop to return variables as echo “word=$word&player=$player”;

Both variables are being returned into the movie as I have no problem with tem being shown in dynamic text boxes but if I try to use the variable player (which will only contain 1,2,3,or 4) in some if else statements it doesn’t seem to work ? If I enter the variable thru the browser as main.swf?player=1 all the if/else code works OK so I don’t think there’s a problem there.

Is there anything I need to do to set the variable differently. I just want the variable to be used to load a different swf file in the main.swf file depending on the number returned from php.

Are you saying that the varibles being returned from the php are equal to numerical values? Do you get a NaN statement when you try to do things with them?