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[ReZTeR]

Short Version
How do you display a PHP variable in a text box in flash?

Long Version
Basically I want to have quotes displayed on my website but inside a flash file. I have a .txt file with some quote in which is like:

I said this and yeah booo|Jim Bob
Get out of my house you smell of urine|Your father
Hello|Friendly Person

Like on the left is the quote and on the right is the person who said it. My PHP file opens this, picks a random line (quote) and then separates the quote and name to two separate variables just like this:

<?php
$file = file ("quotes.txt");
$random = array_rand($file);
$quotes = $file[$random];
$pieces = explode("|", $quotes);
$quote = $pieces[0];
$nam = $pieces[1];
?>

and if I echo either of those variable I get exactly what I want. But I want them in a text box in flash and I have no idea what so ever! Help would be nice.

[Pax]

You could set the variable when you embed the swf onto the page. Then reference the variable by using _root.varName