passing asp data to flash

Hi,

Apologies for cross-posting in ASP and Flash forums, but I'm trying to pass some data from ASP, back to a Flash movie.

I'm aware that by calling LoadVariables() in actionscript , I can get an asp file to write out a querystring that flash will then load.

I can't do that, though, because the asp page itself needs to have something passed to it in the querystring; specifically a database record id number. Obviously I can't put this in a LoadVariables() call as it's gonna change each time the page is loaded.

I was under the impression that I could do this:

Load an asp page that gets the database row id out of the querystring, queries the database as usual, then writes out the Flash embedding html tags:

<PARAM NAME=movie VALUE="flashFile.swf?myVar1=<%=databaseField1%>&myVar2=<%=databaseField2%>">

...which flash will then automatically use to popuplate its variables.

But that doesn't appear to be working; the Flash file hangs in loading. It may well just be a syntax error, but could someone just confirm that it's possible to do what I'm trying to do, and if so where I might be doing it wrong?

Thanks.

Maybe I can make my request more specific - have a look here:

http://www.aspalliance.com/chrisg/t...w-santa.asp.asp

The asp page is sent a variable to use; which it then drops into the Flash by writing it directly into the html <param> tags, as part of the .swf url.

My understanding is that if you call a .swf with something in the querystring, Flash will automatically read that and turn it into variables.

It doesn't appear to be working; I'm not a Flash person and I have no idea if there's something else I need to do within the Flash file in order to get it to pick up those variables.

Can anyone point me in the right direction?

Ok well I didn't read all of your two posts, ;).

You can use loadvariables.
Just have 2 pages! Firstly collect the variables "databaseField1" & "databaseField2" from one page by populating a constant variable with them. Then go to the other page using the variables harvested from the previous.