Saving Data as Text - Local

[James S. Daniel]

Hi, I'm a newbie to flash & PHP and I need to get flash to save data to a text file.  The Saving Data as Text tutorial is great but heres my problem..  The Flash program will not be runing deleaing with a sever.  I will need to install and run PHP on a system that is not a server.  My question is this is it possible to do this and if so how?  I've installed PHP on a windows & macs and I don't see the Saving Data as Text example working at all so something must not be set up correctly.  Please Help.

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I can get the Saving Data as Text on my server but I get the following errors when the PHP file is run

Warning: fopen(anastasio.txt) [function.fopen]: failed to open stream: Permission denied in /home/hsphere/local/home/lindanie/danieldesigns.com/test/Flash/save.php on line 9

Warning: fwrite(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in /home/hsphere/local/home/lindanie/danieldesigns.com/test/Flash/save.php on line 10
writing=Error
Warning: fclose(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in /home/hsphere/local/home/lindanie/danieldesigns.com/test/Flash/save.php on line 12

I'm assuming that these are caused by my server not letting the PHP script to write to the disc.

[Ronald Wernecke]

the error says, you have no rights writing into this file.
Change the access rights for this file - here are tons of posts about this issue.

To write data, you allways need some middleware. Flash itself cannot write to the file system (sandbox security).

[James S. Daniel]

Thanks for the confermation on the couse of the error when writing to the server.  I get that I need middleware, I'm just having a problem getting PHP to run locally.  I'm starting to think that using some other middleware than PHP.  Does Flash support Java?

[Ronald Wernecke]

do the loading and savin tutorials - there you learn how flash communicates - it basicly is the exchange of strings.

I personaly realised some projects, which were meant local, with the local installation of apache (XAMPP).

This runs perfect, and as side effect, you can easyly move it later into a server environment with multiuser access.

[Musicman]

Hi,

on unix servers the recommended procedure would be to create a text file (anastasio.txt) manually, then change its permissions so that "anybody" can write the file: I would assume windows procedure to be somehat similar

Musicman