FLASH: LOADING AND SENDING VARIABLES CONFUSION

[Dickinson (Marcus)]

Ok, I am very frustrated with all this, and upset that I have received little support on this list aside from John Croteau.

 

I use Load Variables to pass two variables from my page using POST to a process.html page which has server side Javascript. This script runs those two variables against a search on our database and passes the results...to a text file.

 

There are problems with this.

1. Using Load Variables - By defining the URL as process.html I have limited myself. I cannot get variables from there, coz I do not know how to store my variables as text in that HTML page, which is why I am writing a separate text file with my results.

2. This means I have to use two processes, one Load Variables to pass to process.html and another on a different frame to retrieve the vaules of process.txt. This is useless to me.

3. It is useless because I could have 5000 users using this search at once. That means 5000 text files being created and destroyed, which is a lot of system resources.

 

Is there not a way to pass my variables to the database (through ASP, CGI, HTML, Javascript, whatever) AND have the results sent to the same page??? John outlined a brief tutorial that I have followed, and cannot seem to get to work, so any help would be appreciated. Thank you.