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[web] Read/Write .txt

Started by Centanoul Sep 2, 2005 at 6:33 PM 3 replies 950+ views

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Sep 2, 2005 at 6:33 PM

I am about finished writing a little game in &#106avascript. Is there anyway that I can write the scores to a txt file and read scores back with &#106avascript? I would only need commands like these: Doc = OpenDocument(name.txt) ReadDocument(Doc, CharToRead) WriteDocument(Doc, "String") CloseDocument(Doc) If not...what other language could read and write such variables to a txt file? And what are the commands? (Without getting into server side scripting. I am renting a domain, not a server.) Thank you ~Cent

Deranged

Sep 2, 2005 at 6:35 PM

Well you have to have a server, thats where the files are, and the server serves them up..., Anyways, the other ones I know of are server side, and they are PHP ASP and ColdFusion.

Centanoul

Sep 2, 2005 at 6:59 PM

Site-Building Tools
Supports CGI Scripts: Perl, Python, PHP3, PHP4, PHP5

Would that let me do it with PHP? Or are CGI scripts different from what I need? And if it will do so, can you point me to the commands to open/close/read/write? I can't seem to find them lieing in any tutorial.
(would rather not pay 70$/month for a server)

~Cent

Talonz

Sep 2, 2005 at 8:25 PM

I don't know &#106avascript very well but I imagine that it would pose a security risk if you could do that hehe. http://www.w3schools.com/php/php_functions2.asp Try that page if you want to use PHP to write files, but I don't know how you would incorporate it into your &#106avascript game. Maybe have a submit score button or something that takes them to the next page, but then you'd have to make it really secure.

Sander

Sep 4, 2005 at 10:23 AM

The easiest way to solve this would be to use a small PHP or CGI script to write the scores to a file on the server and use an XMLHttpReuest object to call that script from inside your &#106avascript game. Take a look at <a href="http://www.w3schools.com/dom/dom_http.asp">http://www.w3schools.com/dom/dom_http.asp</a>

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