I don't know if this possible if Javascript but anyways

I have a textbox and submit button
Now let's say I enter something in that textbox and click submit.

When I click submit I want to save that text to my server file:
ftp://myhost.com/website/notes.txt
And when somebody opens my webpage, they will see my written text from before.
This is like wikipedia where you can edit things


Can anyone help me?

This really isn't a javascript question.
Its a server programming question. Most servers will allow you to do this (assuming you have write permissions to the directory in question).
The how just depends on what server you are using.
For example, on a J2EE server, you could do it with a servlet (or JSP but, people would make fun of you).
One thing to be very careful of is that you don't open a security hole by letting users write to arbitrary files.

(maybe a moderator could move this to the coding forum)

It could be done using AJAX, but even that requires some level of server-side programming. So it COULD apply to Javascript tangentally.

Easy solution: Media Wiki. You want to build a site like Wikipedia, use the software they use.

Originally Posted by Learning Newbie

Easy solution: Media Wiki. You want to build a site like Wikipedia, use the software they use.

Yes I was thinking about it, wikipedia uses the same. But it's just too much code.

[quote=willcode4beer;368466]This really isn't a javascript question.
Its a server programming question. Most servers will allow you to do this (assuming you have write permissions to the directory in question).
[quote]
is CHMODing file to 777 would be enough?

is CHMODing file to 777 would be enough?

That would also make the file executable. Just make sure the file is owned by the same user as the server (please not root).

chmod 600

will make it readable/writeable by that user and no one else.

You'd also need to write you server code to prevent them from reading/writing any arbitrary file (imagine if they over-wrote /etc/passwd).