# Loading a text file **URL:** \ **Category:** flash\ **Created:** [March 23, 2003, 3:11am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-a-text-file/16282 "2003-03-23T03:11:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![cturner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f04885/32.png) [@cturner](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/cturner)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2003, 3:11am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-a-text-file/16282/1 "2003-03-23T03:11:23Z")
Is there any way of letting a user load their own text? ---
**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 23, 2003, 7:49am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-a-text-file/16282/2 "2003-03-23T07:49:52Z")
Howdy and Welcome… 😉 The only thing I can think of is to use form in HTML to upload the user’s text file into the server first and have server side script to move to the appropriate directory under the one where your Flash movie is sitting, and have Flash load the text file… ---
**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 23, 2003, 12:23pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-a-text-file/16282/3 "2003-03-23T12:23:35Z")
Input box + cut’n’paste. Or as above. ---
**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 23, 2003, 12:27pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-a-text-file/16282/4 "2003-03-23T12:27:54Z")
Oh… That could work out too… Thanks, eyezberg… 😉