# CGI scripts

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/cgi-scripts/9008>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [December 2, 2002, 11:47pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/cgi-scripts/9008 "2002-12-02T23:47:53Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Sorcerer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/58956e/32.png) [@Sorcerer](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Sorcerer)\
**Post date:** [December 2, 2002, 11:47pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/cgi-scripts/9008/1 "2002-12-02T23:47:53Z")

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I’m doing page banner for a friend in flash, part of this banner involves a timer starting when someone moves their mouse over a button. I want to have it save the name and time of the person who held their mouse in that spot the longest to a text file as 2 variables. Then when the movie loads I want it to load those 2 variables back into flash and display them until someone beats that time and a new name and time will replace the current variables in the text file. I asked my friend about ASP or PHP and he had no clue but he knows he can run scripts with a cgi extension. I know how to do all the flash stuff, just need a kick in the right direction for the cgi script to save my variables to a text file so that they can be read back into flash.

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2002, 5:42pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/cgi-scripts/9008/2 "2002-12-03T17:42:28Z")

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anyone help me out here?