# Writing data from Flash, live

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/writing-data-from-flash-live/262484>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [June 6, 2008, 10:34am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/writing-data-from-flash-live/262484 "2008-06-06T10:34:35Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![rumblesushi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b38774/32.png) [@rumblesushi](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/rumblesushi)\
**Post date:** [June 6, 2008, 10:34am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/writing-data-from-flash-live/262484/1 "2008-06-06T10:34:35Z")

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Morning fellas,

This is an area of Flash I haven’t experimented in, so I don’t know where to start.

Is it possible to run an SWF, and have Flash export variables externally, as the SWF is running?

So for example, export an Array to XML?

It doesn’t need to be PHP, and stored serverside etc, just written locally on the computer would be fine.

Any idea how I would go about this?

Cheers,  
Joe

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**Author:** ![Macsy](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/macsy/32/3238_2.png) [@Macsy](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Macsy)\
**Post date:** [June 6, 2008, 10:43am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/writing-data-from-flash-live/262484/2 "2008-06-06T10:43:22Z")

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You acctaully need PHP to write it.  
Flash cant write files…

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**Author:** ![rumblesushi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b38774/32.png) [@rumblesushi](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/rumblesushi)\
**Post date:** [June 6, 2008, 11:42am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/writing-data-from-flash-live/262484/3 "2008-06-06T11:42:44Z")

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\*\*\*\*, so it would also be impossible to do it locally? Only serverside?

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**Author:** ![Macsy](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/macsy/32/3238_2.png) [@Macsy](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Macsy)\
**Post date:** [June 6, 2008, 12:19pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/writing-data-from-flash-live/262484/4 "2008-06-06T12:19:24Z")

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well…you could use sharedObjects. but i never used it =)

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**Author:** ![rumblesushi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b38774/32.png) [@rumblesushi](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/rumblesushi)\
**Post date:** [June 6, 2008, 3:24pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/writing-data-from-flash-live/262484/5 "2008-06-06T15:24:44Z")

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OK Cheers Macsy, I’ll look into sharedObjects.