# Flash-Database **URL:** \ **Category:** flash\ **Created:** [July 26, 2004, 7:48pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-database/58877 "2004-07-26T19:48:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![costa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/85f322/32.png) [@costa](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/costa)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2004, 7:48pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-database/58877/1 "2004-07-26T19:48:41Z")
[color=black][font=Arial]Hi everyone[/font][/color] [color=black][font=Arial] [/font][/color] [color=black][font=Arial]I am looking for help. I am trying to make a small program with flash mx 2004 that allows me to read and write information to hard drive, basiclly personal information like name, profession, country and photo. It is like a guess book but without using xlm,php nor access, because I do not know anything about them. I plan to collect around 1000 names and put them in a dataholder component. [/font][/color] [color=black][font=Arial] [/font][/color] [color=black][font=Arial]Any idea? What is the best way to do it? is it possible to use just .txt files? is there a component for that?[/font][/color] [color=black][font=Arial] [/font][/color] [color=black][font=Arial]thanks alot[/font][/color] [color=black][font=Arial] [/font][/color] [color=black][font=Arial]Costa[/font][/color] ---
**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:** [July 27, 2004, 12:35am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-database/58877/2 "2004-07-27T00:35:54Z")
Flash does not have any native text file write ability. A component may exist, but I don’t know of any. The best you can do without involving some other program of some sort is to use the SharedObject functions to write basically a flash “cookie” which will remember your data. I would just use a php script myself, it will be a lot easier and will perform better. –EP