Passing variables from Flash to PHP

[LostProphet]

I'll qualify this by saying I have pretty much zero workable knowledge of Flash. My friend is creating a Flash menu, I am doing the site framework, etc.

We're attempting to load content into a page using a PHP GET method like so:

PHP: Select all

<?php
     switch($_GET['instyle']){
            case 'home': include('home.htm');
                  break;
            case 'about': include('about.htm');
                  break;
            default: include('home.htm');
            }
     ?>

Which is just fine working with HTML links, but we're trying to use the Flash menu to use links like:
index.php?instyle=home
index.php?instyle=about

And so forth. I thought it would just be a case of putting those links in, but that doesn't work.

We've looked at this link:
http://www.actionscript.org/forums/a...3/t-63373.html

But I'll be honest - I don't know if that's right or not. Is there a simpler way we're missing?

[LostProphet]

/hopeful bump

[JacobHaug]

Did you solve the problem?

[LostProphet]

Unfortunately not (yet)

[JacobHaug]

Try posting this in the PHP forum as well. Someone there might know the answer. Sorry I could not help you. I have had to deal with this sort of actionscript code before.

[rusty149]

Not totally sure havent ran in toanything like this im not a fond user of php but where your code looks like this....
index.php?instyle=home
index.php?instyle=about
try doing this...
index.php?instyle == home
index.php?instyle == about

i had a problem where i forgot those before and it screwed everything up if not that try putting some of these ; on the ends of those two statements sorry i could not be of much help!
rusty

[LostProphet]

Well, for some bizarre reason what we ended up with was almost exactly the same as a standard link - it was tried in the first place but perhaps we had a syntax error!
Spent hours trying to find a new solution but had no joy.

Unfortunately, the whole endeavour was a bust anyway - getting new content to load in index.php?page=something refreshes the whole thing, including the Flash menu, thereby totally negating its design! >_<