help with flash and php

[severman]

hi all
im writing a flash game, which the "brains" is in php and the client is on flash.
i've written the board in flash and now i have a 9 same movie clip in flash.
this movie clip has 4 frames in it and they all sits on the main frame.
my problem is that:
lets say that in my php file, i randomized a movie clip(lets say that the name is b21)
now i want to use this name in my flash so i could do this:

b21.gotoAndStop(3);

and what ever i do, it doesnt seems to work.
i can use this name on a dynamc text and show it. but i cant use it as a movie clip name.
if someone could help
thanks!

[mazeroth]

Can you post your AS code to see what you are trying to do that isn't working? You call php, get a variable which is a name, then you try to load that movieclip correct?

[severman]

yap that correct
if my php return the value "b21"
i then want to use it as

b21.gotoAndStop(3);

[mazeroth]

What you are trying to do is use dynamic referencing. For example, try this:

var name = 'b21'; // this value come from php
this[name].gotoAndStop(3);

This code will use the value of this[name], in this case, b21 and tell b21 to gotoAndStop. Here's more info:

http://www.nunomira.com/tutorials/dynamic_references.php#functions