pass variable to flash from the start - help

[benanderson]

When a particular button is pressed in my swf, it loads an asp page - the asp adds an entry to a field in my database:

loadVariablesNum ("

http://ben/var.asp",

0, "GET"

This works fine.

However, my problem is that when the asp puts an entry into my database, it needs to add it to a particular record. For example, update field1 where user_id = 1

The problem is that my swf needs to know what user_id to update.

I know one solution would be to get the user to login through the swf and therefore the swf would know the user_id but by the time the user gets to the swf, they've already logged into the section from an asp page - I don't want them to have to enter their username and password again into the swf.

How do I go about doing this?

Any help would be much appreciated!

Ben

 

[benanderson]

I've worked it out!

<PARAM NAME=movie VALUE=&quot;test.swf?user_id=<%=user_id%>&quot;>

This creates a variable in flash and gives it a value of whatever user_id I've got from my asp page