Quirky LoadVars won't let me set Send variables in function

Question

So, my last host died at the beginning of the month and I
just got everything migrated to a new host. I was trying to get
back to work on this Flash project that logins via PHP to a mySQL
database. The login script stopped working. I have discovered that
_global.getcards.THISVARIABLE will not let me set THISVARIABLE, but
this only happens from the login function. I can write a test
function with copy/pasted code from the broken one and it will
work. I am pretty sure this function worked before. If I copy/paste
the whole function it breaks again, but the set data is at the
beginning of the function, so I don't understand how that could
change it. . .
Here's the code that calls the script from the login button:
quote:
on (release, keyPress "<Enter>") {
else if (emailbox.length>0 &&
passwordbox.length>0) {
if (scriptbox.length>0){
janeticookie.data.script = scriptbox.text;
calledFromLoginButton = true;
PHPgetCards();
And the beginning of the PHPgetCards function:
quote:
function PHPgetCards(s){
//declare variables
if (s == undefined)
_global.getcards.SCRIPT = janeticookie.data.script;
else if (s != "NULL")
_global.getcards.SCRIPT = s;
_global.getcards.sendAndLoad('
http://mysite.com/getcards.php',
_global.getcards, 'GET');
_global.getcards.onLoad = function (success){
if (success){
If I trace _global.getcards.SCRIPT and
janeticookie.data.script, janeticookie (a shared object) works, but
getcards (a LoadVars) comes back undefined. If I make a test
function
quote:
function testme(){
_global.getcards.user_email = janeticookie.data.email;
_global.getcards.user_password = janeticookie.data.password;
trace(_global.getcards.user_email);
trace(_global.janeticookie.data.email);
and call it right before PHPgetCards in the
login script, it traces properly. Any idea what's going on? Here
are my variable declarations from the frame the login button occurs
on:
quote:
#include "copyright.as"
#include "md5.as"
#include "LphpAS.as" //the PHPgetCards function
include "test.as" //the testme() function
import it.sephiroth.Serializer;
_global.serial = new Serializer();
_global.getcards = new LoadVars();
_global.newscript = new LoadVars ();
_global.savescript = new LoadVars ();
_global.janeticookie = SharedObject.getLocal("janeticookie");
Thanks much!

Answer 1

So I just got back from a long weekend and I found the
problem. Here is the code at the end of the function that handles
how it exits (I faked indentation with backticks cause this forum
deletes tabs):
quote:
if(calledFromLoginButton == true){
` calledFromLoginButton = false;
` if(scriptcookie.data.user == undefined)
``` _root.gotoAndPlay('badlogin');
` if(scriptcookie.data.user != undefined)
``` _root.gotoAndStop('makePanels');
}else if (calledFromTransition == true){
` trace("open");
` calledFromTransition = false;
` updateBigPanel();
` updatePanels();
` //_parent.play();
} else{
` updateBigPanel();
` updatePanels();
The commented _parent.play() breaks it. I don't understand
why, because calledFromTransition is not true and based on the
trace that code snippet is not being invoked by this function call
(calledFromTransition is used in a later call). Can someone please
explain why?
Thanks!