sorry for the double post, but I don't understand what's going on in the .txt file. I entered the following test:

a1=2
a2=3

And instead of reading that as two seperate variables, a1 returns:
2
a2=3

and a2 is 'undefined'. What do i put in the text file to make it stop 'reading the line'. I tried ; and it doesn't work.

At 11/21/09 02:22 PM, knugen wrote: Reading is not a problem with only AS2 (or 3 for that matter), PHP is needed if you want to write to a text file though.

works, thanks :)

Hi. I need some help - I have local .txt files in my directory, and I want flash to be able to read the file, and store its content in a string variable.

From the sources and tutorials I've seen online, I saw it's only possible to do this through php, then send the content to flash using sendandload (?) .

I might be wrong, but I think the way to go about this, in php, is to create a variable which holds the 'body' of the file, then send it to flash using the echo method. I'm very new to php, so I need a little help with the code. Thanks very much in advance :)

At 11/21/09 12:20 PM, Nayhan wrote: As far as I know you can't retrieve information from .txt files only .sol files.
Here's the tutorial > Saving and Loading by Denvish.

that's cookie files. I'm talking about local files in a certain directory.

Hi. I was wondering how I can open a local file, and retrieve its content.

I want to open local .txt files, and place their content in a string variable.

Thank you very much in advance for any help.

At 11/16/09 06:46 PM, Deathcon7 wrote: You'll have to get the text from the box and manually store it into an Array.

very stupid of me not to have thought it on my own lol thanks.

At 11/16/09 01:55 PM, Yambanshee wrote: Just reverse it

["a"+1] = my_txt.text

Let me describe exactly what I need.

I'm duplicating a movieclip every time a user clicks on a button. Inside said movieclip is an input box. The text inputted is to be saved in q1, q2, etc.

What you described wouldn't work because then I would need to give the textbox in the movieclip different names, like ["textbox"+i], and that's not allowed.

nah dude it's an input box. Meaning I want whatever the user inputs into the textbox to be saved into a variable., but the variable that it needs to be saved to, changes.

Hi. I'm trying to have the variable for the input box not be a constant variable. For example, when I insert _root.q1 into the variable box, it obviously works fine, but when I put _root["q"+1] it doesn't work.

Ultimately I want the variable box to read _root["q"+_root.ID] (changing index). Is this possible? How can I create something like this?

thanks in advance.

I uploaded the .swf and .php files to my directory. Then I ran the .swf file (through the browser), and the .txt file was not created.

bump - this still isn't working, and I can't figure it out =/

AS2

sorry for the double post.

This seems to work partially, and I don't know what I'm doing wrong.

Once I upload the .swf and .php files into my directory, the file is automatically created. Also, after I delete the .txt file in my directory, and run the .swf file in my browser, it doesn't create the .txt file.

thanks in advance :)

wow thanks, I wasn't expecting that :D ty very much

thanks dude.

How do i feed the text file its content? I'm working with flash, and is there a way I can insert a string variable into a text file?

For instance, I have a variable named str (string variable), and I wish to have its value as the content in the text file.

Hi, I was wondering if someone could help me with a php script.

I need to create a script that creates .txt files with a name that is given in the url link. For instance, the call:

domain.com/subfolder/runScript.php?name=
"text name"

should create a .txt file with the name 'text name' in the subfolder. I don't really know how to get parameters and apply them to the code I've been given. Thanks very much in advance for any help.

<?php
$fp = fopen("newTxtFile.txt" , "x+");
fputs($fp , "Text that will be saved in txt file once made");
fclose($fp);
?>

then care to direct me to a more advanced one, instead of acting like a snobby bitch?

i dont really know php, where exactly can i enter that code, can it go in the flash file? If not, can I make a 'run script' file, that flash will run, something like, run:

domain.com/subfolder/createTxtFile.php

and furthermore, can I specify the name of the text file when running this file (it's probably wrong how I wrote this):

domain.com/subfolder/createTxtFile.php?n ame="text file name"

so it's only possible to read from txt files? that's it? not even edit its content?

Hi. I'm using .txt files in my root directory for saving and loading data, using this awesome AS tut:
http://www.newgrounds.com/bbs/topic/2988 29

I was wondering if it's possible to CREATE and later edit the data in these files using AS2. Thanks in advance.

sorry for the bump, is it possible to CREATE text files within the parent directory, with a given name?

Hi. I was wondering if anyone can help me out with something:

I want to create local files (simple text files), that will store data created by flash. Later on, I want to be able to open these files from flash, and retrieve the data from them.

I would like to point out that I do know about the whole save / load function that flash has through cookies, and I strictly want this done through the creation of local files.

Thank you VERY much in advance for anyone who helps.

:D

you're going in the wrong direction.

You're turning NG into an artsy community, and not focusing on what it was started for.

that is freaking awesome, but that zooming in/out thing is annoying as hell.

it's just disturbing, for some reason.

the new layout sucks balls.

we wanna see art, not menus -_-

show your art

i'm pretty sure it's possible to do this with 07x

sorry for double post, but I'm using 07x.net for my website, and I don't know if this is what I should have done, but I added my forum as a 'parked domain'. This is what happened:

http://pythons.07x.net/

hi!

I was wondering how I could host my forum on my own website, in a separate page.

I created a forum using www.setbb.com, but I don't want to use their domain. I want to host it on my own website.

I know this is possible, because I've seen it. Here's an example:
http://www.krinlabs.com/phpBB3/

Thanks in advance!