That pretty much sums it up.
I know nothing about server-side anything, but I’d like to be able to put some simple data into a text file on my own hard drive with flash. I’m guessing its impossible, but is there anything I can install that will do something with the post method of loadVars to receive some text from flash?
i dont think that’s possible… can’t think of any way to that, unless you had php and apache installed on your machine, i don’t think it’s possible to write a textfile locally from flash…
it might be possible with ASP, but I have no experience with that whatsoever…
would SharedObjects do the job?
i know i know, shared objects are what you’re sposed to use, but it would just make my day to be able to write real files.
Can php run locally and function as a server for a browser on the same machine?
yes and no. Some functions don’t work correctly when running on a home pc. never tried. You would probably use C++ for something like. more effective…
you can’t refer to the file as ‘c:\program files\apache\htdocs\myfile.php’ , but you can call it through ‘http://localhost/myfile.php’ (requires the apache server to be running)…
on top of that, the file will be written on your web folder… i don’t know of any ways to have it written on the client’s machine, or on any other folder for you case…
there are some packages that you install to get php and apache running on your machine without and configuring whatsoever… they’re somewhat outdated but will do the job… if you need it, i’ll look for the link 
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the link: http://www.firepages.com.au/
*Originally posted by Jubba *
**yes and no. Some functions don’t work correctly when running on a home pc. never tried. You would probably use C++ for something like. more effective… **
hm… so far all the function i’ve used run fine on my home machine, except the mail() function since it requires an smtp server which i dont have
come to think of it, there may be away to do it with javascript. Oh! duh, javascript cookies ARE text files. I bet I could have the browser pass it on to the cookie text file. The only drawback would be that I could only save files to my cookies folder. I’ll look into that. Thanks though guys.
hm… i accedintaly came accross this thread, im shocked to see that!!
http://www.flashmove.com/forum/showthread.php?threadid=5509&highlight=undocumented
thats awesome…
