# External Text

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/external-text/23854>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [June 23, 2003, 11:51am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/external-text/23854 "2003-06-23T11:51:46Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![LATO](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f17d59/32.png) [@LATO](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/LATO)\
**Post date:** [June 23, 2003, 11:51am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/external-text/23854/1 "2003-06-23T11:51:46Z")

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Hi,

I’m making a flashsite for someone and he doesn’t want to pay for a host. So I’m using the free webspace of his provider, no support for a fancy language (like PHP)… Now he tells me that he wants to update everything himself.

I know it’s possible to load text and pictures from an external source, but would it be stupid to let my ‘client’ just replace (copy-paste) the text and pictures on the server by new ones? Would the site load really slow with everything external? Is there another (easy) way?

Thanx

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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:** [June 23, 2003, 11:59am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/external-text/23854/2 "2003-06-23T11:59:03Z")

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You can use external txt files and load them into a text field. Besides, it makes updates much more simple, cuz u only have to update the txt file.