# GuestBook Data saving
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/guestbook-data-saving/27574
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [August 4, 2003, 7:09am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/guestbook-data-saving/27574 "2003-08-04T07:09:43Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@phorte](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/phorte)
#### Post date: [August 4, 2003, 7:09am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/guestbook-data-saving/27574/1 "2003-08-04T07:09:43Z")
hi… okay… i need advice for how i should do something in flash…
what i want to do is make a kind of guestbook thing… and what i need to do is just store the data of each post into a data file on the website…
I was thinking that i could do it with SharedObjects… as i know how to use them and that was what i was goin to try first… but… is this the best way to do it?? will it work on the web or will it only work locally on a computer…
Should i be using php or xml or somtin like that?? If so… how would i do that cause i dont have a clue at all… =S
Thanks in advance for you help… =)
-Scotty
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 4, 2003, 8:09am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/guestbook-data-saving/27574/2 "2003-08-04T08:09:50Z")
I heard PHP is the best way, there should be a tutorial in the ‘best of kirupa’ section somewhere. I’ll see if i can find it 🙂 And what’d you mean by shared objects??
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 4, 2003, 9:11am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/guestbook-data-saving/27574/3 "2003-08-04T09:11:40Z")
hi… thanks… but… hmm… do u know where i can just find a simple tutorial about how to save data into a php file or somthing like that cause i have all the way i am goin to set it up already worked out i think…
-Scott
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 4, 2003, 9:29am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/guestbook-data-saving/27574/4 "2003-08-04T09:29:39Z")
i think you use
getURL and use the POST method.
then, you use the GET method later on. Not too sure :-\ I couldn’t find the tutorial in the best of kirupa, may try a search in the flash MX section…
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 4, 2003, 10:21am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/guestbook-data-saving/27574/5 "2003-08-04T10:21:53Z")
hmm… POST method… =S hmm. i have absolutely now experience with php pages… so… its all very confusing to me… but…
When i said about SharedObjects i meant these :[http://www.macromedia.com/support/flash/action\_scripts/actionscript\_dictionary/actionscript\_dictionary648.html](http://www.macromedia.com/support/flash/action_scripts/actionscript_dictionary/actionscript_dictionary648.html)
But do you know if these can be run of a server not of the local machine… =S
-Scott