Trouble is, since my actionscript is all on the first frame, its runs through the movie timeline back to the first frame. If I put a stop(); on the “work” frame, it does open and stop it there, but no buttons work because it didnt load the first frame with the script.

i don’t understand why this happens because the movie works fine when i don’t access it via the html links.. and anchors are sending it to a certain point of the movie that i know works, not a new and untested spot…

I therefore created an anchor and then ran a gotoandstop command to the movie and frame name.

Example.

Scene : Main
Frame : 5
Anchor : Comp
Action : Pages.gotoAndStop(“Comp_01a”);

Once I had made sure the “Pages” movie was available on Frame 5 all worked.

You still need to set the HTML template to “Flash with Named Anchors”.

@Konrad:

Just to make sure I understand, it sounds like you’ve got the same .swf file used in various html pages, which are in different folders on the web server, and you want the swf file to play different frames depending on which html page it’s playing in.

It sounds like you’re already on the right track, since you mentioned FlashVars — that’s probably the best way to make the same swf behave differently in different html (or php, or whatever) pages.

It sounds like you’re using a single php file as a temple, that controls the header part of the page. If you can change the php code of the template or pages directly, you could write some php that checks the containing folder, and writes a keyword (or even a frame #, or whatever) into the FlashVars part of the HTML that embeds the swf in the page. You could then use ActionScript to check for that word or number in your SWF, and jump to the appropriate frame. I’ve written some information about working with FlashVars here, that includes some examples of something similar:
http://probertson.com/articles/2005/02/14/flash-databases-urlvars-flashvars/

I created a flash header encorporating the navigation with the main sections of the website represented (have a preview on http://preview.hosts.co.uk/~swinsidelodge-hotel.co.uk/index.php) but would like to play a set number of different frames depending on which section the page is in. The site uses one php template for all pages and has a cms where (sub)pages can be created.

Is there any way to write the flashvars so that it picks up in which section (each section is in a different folder on the server) the page is and make it play the appropriate frames?

Thanks,

Konrad