Save variables to harddrive

[Guest_imported]

I must save some variables to the users harddrive using php,
i tried to write c:\var.txt as the text file name, but then a text file, called"c:\var.txt" was on my server,
so how can i manage to save a variable to the text file text.txt to the users harddrive folder c:\

 

[vcherubini]

Umm, other than using cookies, that is impossible, unless the user is running a web server and you have access to their machine via thier IP. That is highly unlikely.

Just use the PHP cookie functions to write the information to the harddrive. This will only work if the user allows cookies, obviously.


Then, just use the PHP cookie functions to parse the cookie and there you go. Thats the only way to do it, that I am aware of.

Hope this helps,

-Vic
vic cherubini
vikter@epicsoftware.com

http://www.epicsoftware.com

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[rycamor]

Supposedly there are methods to do stuff like that in signed scripts with IE, where the user allows the server access to a certain amount of filehandle information. This is not a PHP function, but more a question of client-side JScript, or ActiveX. This only works with Internet Explorer, and is only wise in a carefully controlled intranet environment. Check out

http://msdn.microsoft.com/ie/

for more information.