Saving User Setting in a Flash File

[jc51jay]

Hello.

Does anyone know if it is possible to save a flash file on the internet to remember where a user left it. Basically i have a site where people register as members, they can then login and use a drag and drop flash to place text where they want it. But i need to make it so that person can click a button to save it, then when they have logged back in it remembers what they have done.

Any thoughts would be great?

Thanks
James

[Tamlin]

I have created a new thread for your post, as you'll probably have more chance of getting an answer than by tagging your question on the end of an existing thread.

I'm afraid I don't have an answer; Unleash is our resident Flash guru - hopefully he'll spot this and be able to help you out.

[unleash]

Hey!

I am actually not sure if you can combine php and flash.....

I know that you can write an XML file with flash, so maybe you should look into that. Like "Flash > XML > PHP > MYSQL" or something like that. But I dont know if you can read out an XML file with PHP.....

Well I hope this helps you out,

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[Tamlin]

Thanks for the reply Unleash. My own thoughts on this are that web applications that offer this sort of functionality normally store individual user settings in a cookie that is dropped on the user's machine and then read by the app the next time the user visits that particular site. Whether a Flash application can read and write cookies, though, I have no idea.