# Text field to XML file

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/text-field-to-xml-file/25560>\
**Category:** programming\
**Created:** [July 14, 2003, 1:33pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/text-field-to-xml-file/25560 "2003-07-14T13:33:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![R3ACT](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7bcc69/32.png) [@R3ACT](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/R3ACT)\
**Post date:** [July 14, 2003, 1:33pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/text-field-to-xml-file/25560/1 "2003-07-14T13:33:47Z")

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Ok, been browsing the tutorials and messages for a few days now, but can’t seem to find any help on how I take text fields from my Flash movie and write them to an XML file on the server.

I understand the XML tutorials on this site, but they just explain how to send the XML data to the server…not how to capture/write it to a file. I assume I need to use PHP to do this, but can’t seem to find any tutorials or scripts to help. I am building a very simple guestbook-like app, and would like to use XML over a mySql db.

Any help is much appreciated.

-Jason

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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:** [July 14, 2003, 2:27pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/text-field-to-xml-file/25560/2 "2003-07-14T14:27:39Z")

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oki… u do need to use PHP

I dont know why u want to use XML but its quite hard to explain if u dont know PHP at all…

please tell me if u do need to know… maybe tell me the structure of your messages file…

-Aditya  
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