Flash Video Player with Html/php List

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I have created a streaming FLV player that works with and XML playlist. All the vids work fine if I trigger them with a list inside the flash document. But the site I am working with requires that the list exist outside the flash file in html/php. So the only flash in the page would be the player/controls. The rest would be html/php. Is there a standard code that I can attach to each item in the html/php list that would load flvs into the flash player?

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Since there have been no responses to this I am going to try to explain one more time. Sorry in advance for the vagueness but I am not working directly with the php end of things for this project, that is another guys job. I am actually a video editor, and I am fairly new to flash. Still I have managed (thanks to tutrials and books and these forums) to build a player that pulls videos along with relevant information via xml, and plays them with netConnection (progressively right?)--like I said I am new.

Now, I have recently found out that our main site requires that all the information regarding a a particular video needs to be displayed outside of the Flash document. All this information (title, autor, date, etc..) is getting stored in database. (The actuall FLVs will not be stored in the database, they will be in a directory on our server.) So retrieving and displaying the list of videos along with relevant information will happen outside of flash with php/html.

Heres the issue though - Once the list of videos is displayed how will a specific item or link in the php list trigger the flash player to load a video into the player. My thinking right now is that the XML video player that I have built is not going to cut it because the information about particular videos is not coming from the XML document any longer. I have read a little on External API but I am not sure if this is the correct solution. Do I need to build a new player, with variables that javascript can understand? Please, any advice or help would be great. Thanks