http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/multiple_dynamictext.htm
http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/externaldata.htm
there are 2 examples for loading external text…
as for your other question, yes you can save to an external text file using Flash and PHP…i added an example, and here is a brief explaination…
First, upload these files to the same directory on your server…
secret.swf, secret.html, write.php, and textdata.txt .
How it works:
The Name, and Message Input text boxes have Variable names of
name, and message respectively…
the actions on the submit button are:
[AS]
on (release) {
loadVariablesNum(“write.php”, 0, “POST”);
gotoAndStop(2);
}
[/AS]
So, when you press the button, it communicates with the write.php file on your sever which is set up like this…
<html>
<body>
<?
// Let's declare the 2 variables:
$name = $_POST['name'];
$message= $_POST['message'];
// Let's open the file we want to put the data in:
if($REQUEST_METHOD == 'POST'){
$file = "textdata.txt";
$fp = fopen($file, "a+");
// Write to the file:
fwrite($fp, $_POST['name'] . ":" . $_POST['message'] . "
");fclose($fp);
}
?>
</body>
</html>
The php file, saves the name/message to the external text document textdata.txt…ofcoarse you can customize it to your needs…this just an example of how it can be done…