Same flash file...different pages????

Hey everyone, I have a problem with a site I'm working on, I'm using a flash movie file for the navigation.

The nav consists of 8 links, two of them which drop and reveal other links.

My problem is that when a user clicks on one of these revealed links when the new page loads up, the flash file is also loaded up and is set back to the begining, which means the links are hidden again.

I don't want to use a frameset for this, but I heard that variables could be passed to allow the movie to start at a particular place in the sequence.

I'm using .php extensions on the pages themselves, Can anyone help me out.

Thanks so much in advance.

hey,

one method would be to use php to embed your page into the html. in the src attribute, you can append the .swf just like any other extension. you can say something like:

src="myfile.swf?menu2=true"

in your flash movie, in the first frame, test to see if menu2 == true and if it does, go to that drop down. This is only a solution if your flash is calling php pages... if you do use this method -- writing the flash embed with php -- make sure to append both the object and the embed source attributes. hope that helps.

cheers,

bret

factory53 did you figure this out? I pretty much want to do the same thing

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