Actionscript 3 Help

Hello !
I am trying to build a dynamic menu with php , mysql and
actionscript 3 !
As far as this point all works fine as i can display my menu
to flash using actionscript 3 and loading vars from php
the problem is that i cant pass the variable correct to some
functions i have, so my menu is useless.
Please someone to help me or guide me to a possible solution.

This is the Flash Player forum; why don't you post this in the ActionScript 3 forum...?

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Cliop wrote:
> So this is how it goes...I've already made my website, I
have all the pages and
> everything made BUT...I have a few bugs. The first
starts at my login page, it
> is a universal login, so it has 2 usernames and
passwords, I have the code for
> it but, It does not go when I press the submit button.
The next is when I get
> to my actual website, all the webpages but one are all
in different scenes. I
> type in the code: on (press) {gotoAndPlay ("1","Corp") ;
} but it just goes the
> scene up next. I have no clue what is wrong here. I also
have a flaw with my
> loading page, whether than just loads fast or not, the
loading movie does not
> loop until the movie is loaded. This page is also part
of the movie. Can anyone
> help?
>

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