How do I make a Cookie in Flash 8?

[jonra]

I've made a pretty intense flash weather video for a friend. I have a flash player.swf loading a .flv which ends in a xml slide show. The movie can be a little over powering if the viewer comes to the site many times day. So I need to make a cookie that could mute all sounds for 24hrs, that would be ideal.

I have a preview of the video up at:
www.kindair.org/weather

I've found a tutorial on flash cookies, ( http://www.tutcity.com/view/flash-cookies.11455.html ) but requires the user to hit a button in order for the cookie to call up the php. I was wondering if anyone knew how to make the 24hr mute cookie I refered to or could point in the right direction of how to?

Thanks so much for your time,
Jonra

[Ronald Wernecke]

If you like to use this sample, you can trigger it with any event.

For instance onEnterFrame would do it

[Jorge Solis]

Also you can use SharedObject, is the Flash "cookie"

Jorge