Data Integration (ASP/Flash)

[jack up]

Im new to the whole database integration with ASP, so bare with me. Im trying
to trouble shoot a problem that seems to be pointing at me (im only responsible
for the flash design and development)

Question : how does a site that uses ASP( to communicate with a database) pass
the needed parameters and values to an HTML page that then is presented in
the SWF?
I guess to clarify this :
There is a database that has been set up to hold each users personal info and
account information.
There is also a swf that wants to utilize portions of the users info to aid in
pre-populating fields that would be redundant for the end user to enter. This
particular Flash file may only need to know the users Name, Address, and
PhoneNumber. So in Flash the variables are :
userName
userAddress
userPhone

So when I hand over the .swf file to the programers, they do their thing and
without specifying which parameters are being used, the HTML that is presenting
the file, atomatically has these three parameters defined with their values for
the flash file.
How is this code being generated? is there someway for an ASP page to
determine which database parameters are being used with out being executed to
do so by the fla?

Even when I set up a test.swf that has no coding and 3 dynamic text fields
that have one of the three parameter names presented in the VAR field of the
Properties window in the FLA, the HTML that Is created by the programers is
still able to pull just these three paramters and present their values for the
swf to pull from. This is with any 3 of the 100 parameters in the database for
this user.

Any insight would help.

[Randy1969]

You can either pass the variables to the move using the Flashvars param in the
embed tag or you can have the movie load the values from an ASP file by using
the sendAndLoad method of the LoadVars object. Hope this helps.

Randy Poole
CIO
http://www.telsim.com