# FileReference - uploading a file with flash 8

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/filereference-uploading-a-file-with-flash-8/163955>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [September 27, 2005, 5:04pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/filereference-uploading-a-file-with-flash-8/163955 "2005-09-27T17:04:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![natronp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/87869e/32.png) [@natronp](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/natronp)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2005, 5:04pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/filereference-uploading-a-file-with-flash-8/163955/1 "2005-09-27T17:04:23Z")

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has anyone had any luck with the FileReference flash class? supposedly you can easily create an .swf to upload files to the web server.

there’s a tute in the help section along with PHP script. I can’t seem to get it to work on my webserver though…

anybody else tried it yet?