# Letting the user save a file **URL:** \ **Category:** Uncategorized\ **Created:** [March 22, 2002, 9:19pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/letting-the-user-save-a-file/2514 "2002-03-22T21:19:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
**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:** [March 22, 2002, 9:19pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/letting-the-user-save-a-file/2514/1 "2002-03-22T21:19:10Z")
I’m designing a website based on Windows for a 22-minute cartoon thingy I’m making (by my calculations, it’ll be officially up in 2 or 3 weeks, for those who have noticed that I first talked about this about a month ago. We’re just recording the audio now, and I want at least one scene done before I go public…) Anyway, the way I present the “Director’s Commentary” section of the site is as a mock word processor, pretending that the director’s commentaries are all just different .doc files on the computer. (Man am I ever clever! Go me!) To make this seem more genuine, I said “what the hell” and made it so that the user can write their own document, too. It’s not something complex - it’s just a big section of useless input text on a white piece of paper thingy. Took about 3 seconds to do, so why not, right? Naturally, I had to show all my friends how clever I am. Pretty well everyone’s response was: “Can you save what you wrote?” Curses! My cleverness has met a roadblock! “No! You can’t! Can’t you just appreciate my glory without demanding more?! Back, you vultures! Back, I say!” They have a point. It’s not impossible for me to do - I’ve seen Flash guestbooks. First question: How could I add that save option? Second point: I’m concerned that would take up needless server space. If some no-life decided “Boy! I’m going to write thousands on stories on this word processor! Keen!” I could run out of space, or at least low on space, on the single most useless and most impractical aspect of the site. So… Second question: Would it be worthwhile?