# It's help the simpleton time again!

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**Created:** [April 25, 2003, 12:24am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/its-help-the-simpleton-time-again/19174 "2003-04-25T00:24:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![tomlangdon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/46a35a/32.png) [@tomlangdon](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/tomlangdon)\
**Post date:** [April 25, 2003, 12:24am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/its-help-the-simpleton-time-again/19174/1 "2003-04-25T00:24:47Z")

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evenin’ all - i was wondering if anyone could give me any pointers on how to get some text written in to an input window by the user, to SAVE as a .txt file when the user clicks a ‘save’ button, with the current date as its filename?

theres a tough one (for me at least - most of you are probably yawning)

thanks for your help.  
😛

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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:** [April 25, 2003, 12:34am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/its-help-the-simpleton-time-again/19174/2 "2003-04-25T00:34:32Z")

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yup yup… check out this thread:

[http://www.kirupaforum.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=10150&highlight=write+to+text+file](http://www.kirupaforum.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=10150&highlight=write+to+text+file)

You have to use PHP or ASP (or some other server-side language) to do the writing tho… read thru that thread…

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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:** [April 25, 2003, 10:09am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/its-help-the-simpleton-time-again/19174/3 "2003-04-25T10:09:59Z")

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aghh!! it looks like that whole area is going to bugger me sideways. I think for now i’ll just stick with my copy and paste method! :elderly:

thanks for your help anyhow - and btw, the fla in the thread you sent me, wouldnt even generate the txt at-all, all it would do is keep opening the txt blank - plus, i noticed that it was (supposed to be) writing to a txt file that already existed - i need mine to generate a newly titled txt each time, using the date on the user’s computer as the filename.

thanks anyway

:crazy:

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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:** [April 25, 2003, 1:48pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/its-help-the-simpleton-time-again/19174/4 "2003-04-25T13:48:13Z")

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You would have to change the PHP in order to make a new text file. Thats not too difficult. Just a few more lines of code on the PHP side.

Also, you have to make sure that you CHMOD the text file. That is why it wasn’t writing to it. I think the values have to be 775 in order for it to write to the file…

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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:** [April 25, 2003, 3:47pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/its-help-the-simpleton-time-again/19174/5 "2003-04-25T15:47:40Z")

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i think i have what’s known as ‘16yearold-mx-dyslexia’😛

should that make sense to me!?!? i feel so retarded. i have no idea how to tweak PHP and dont know my CHMOD’ing from my XML’s. I’m 16!!! i hoped this would be a hell of a lot easier - every complex actionscript doohickey i’ve ever used has been pinched from the kirupa tutorials!!!

if i can figure out how to post up my .fla file, would anyone be able to give me some exemplary tweaking?

thanks for your commitment so far jubba, you’re very kind 😃

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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:** [April 25, 2003, 3:56pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/its-help-the-simpleton-time-again/19174/6 "2003-04-25T15:56:40Z")

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sorry, i think i may have been misleading you slightly aswell - this is a standalone application for use on the desktop, not for publication on a site - is it still possible? or does it have to be online for CHMOD’ing to apply? i have no idea, i just got that gist from the thread you refered me to.

taa