# Saving to an external file

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/saving-to-an-external-file/196975>\
**Category:** web dev\
**Created:** [August 12, 2006, 8:00am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/saving-to-an-external-file/196975 "2006-08-12T08:00:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![fm47](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/50afbb/32.png) [@fm47](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/fm47)\
**Post date:** [August 12, 2006, 8:00am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/saving-to-an-external-file/196975/1 "2006-08-12T08:00:06Z")

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I want to create a form for a journal, but I need it to save to a file when I hit “submit”. How do I do that? I hope I don’t have to go into php like these here forums…