# Saving data from a text field

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/saving-data-from-a-text-field/261622>\
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**Created:** [May 29, 2008, 10:54am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/saving-data-from-a-text-field/261622 "2008-05-29T10:54:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![italiaboy89](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e0b2c6/32.png) [@italiaboy89](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/italiaboy89)\
**Post date:** [May 29, 2008, 10:54am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/saving-data-from-a-text-field/261622/1 "2008-05-29T10:54:55Z")

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HI,

I want to be able to enter data into a text box(input), and then be able to close the flash file, then re-open it and the text is still there!  
any help would be appreciated.

Thanx… 🙂

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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:** [May 30, 2008, 7:52am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/saving-data-from-a-text-field/261622/2 "2008-05-30T07:52:02Z")

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How about Shared Objects? Or, you could look into saving files with php, either will get the job done:  
[URL=“[http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/sharedobjects.htm](http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/sharedobjects.htm)”]  
Shared Objects  
[Saving to text files from flash with php](http://www.flash-db.com/Tutorials/saving/savingData.php?page=2)

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**Author:** ![Digitalosophy](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/digitalosophy/32/1114_2.png) [@Digitalosophy](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Digitalosophy)\
**Post date:** [May 30, 2008, 4:14pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/saving-data-from-a-text-field/261622/3 "2008-05-30T16:14:21Z")

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Shared objects will probably be your best bet. Unless you want to have a log in area where users can log in and see what they typed. Then you would probably have to go with a server side / database methodology.

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**Author:** ![italiaboy89](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e0b2c6/32.png) [@italiaboy89](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/italiaboy89)\
**Post date:** [June 5, 2008, 2:07am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/saving-data-from-a-text-field/261622/4 "2008-06-05T02:07:03Z")

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thanx guys. its actually for a calenday for my desktop, i want to be able to add in appointments and meetings.

Cheers,