# Sending to .txt
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/sending-to-txt/38421
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [December 22, 2003, 6:42pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/sending-to-txt/38421 "2003-12-22T18:42:43Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@spikeyspike76](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/spikeyspike76)
#### Post date: [December 22, 2003, 6:42pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/sending-to-txt/38421/1 "2003-12-22T18:42:43Z")
:upset: I’ve been unable to send data to a text file. I am making a news poster for a website, but free or any XML, php MySQL or anything else; so is it possible to send data to a .txt file using no other files? If so please explain the method to me; is it getLocals or something?
:cowboy:
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 22, 2003, 6:57pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/sending-to-txt/38421/2 "2003-12-22T18:57:31Z")
nope i did it with php but it is impossible to do it with just actionscrip and some txt file
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 22, 2003, 7:20pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/sending-to-txt/38421/3 "2003-12-22T19:20:26Z")
Well I get the shaft :jail:
If you did it in just a little script, would you relay it to me? I can stand to use an extra file if it’s otherwise impossible . . .
Basically, I want a flash file that crew memebers of this site can use to send news AND for guests to read the news. It’s easy to load a “latestNews” variable from .txt, but the webmasters should be able to add news without uploading a new .txt or using a php file editor. (This site is under contruction so I’m not really pressed for time)
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 22, 2003, 7:36pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/sending-to-txt/38421/4 "2003-12-22T19:36:14Z")
you’d need something like php for that.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 22, 2003, 8:45pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/sending-to-txt/38421/5 "2003-12-22T20:45:27Z")
Actually there is a way to do it, just not on the web ☹
but at any rate check this out:
[http://www.kirupaforum.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=42405](http://www.kirupaforum.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=42405)
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 22, 2003, 9:25pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/sending-to-txt/38421/6 "2003-12-22T21:25:14Z")
well its not really _doing it_ if its not on the web 😉
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 22, 2003, 9:33pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/sending-to-txt/38421/7 "2003-12-22T21:33:04Z")
😜 It would be a lot of script, wouldn’t it? I would think that flash has a simple way of doing this, but oh well. I’ll do some searching, but if anyone knows of a link (or the script itself), please post it.
That little utility is cool! Actually, if this worked out I was going to try to make a simple chat “app” (if it’s an swf you don’t call it an application do you?)