I have been trying to figure out how what I'm doing wrong. I have a button in
flash (using flash 8) that needs to pass a variable to a php script.

Flash script
// trying to set the variable
var bc:String= "Text";

// variable button
button.onRelease = function (){
loadVariables("webpage.php", "blank" ,"POST");
}

PHP

<?PHP
echo $bc; ?>

Anyone have any ideas? Thanks

Try:

<?PHP
$bc = $_POST['bc'];
echo $bc;
?>

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For issues in the future, I recommend separating the flash and php parts
so that you know what part is broken.
I recommend a tool called "Wireshark" for debugging networking issues
like this, it is a packet monitor and will tell you exactly what flash