can javascript save files or edit files?

Question

i know HTML JAVASCRIPT PHP and vbscrip

i was going to try to make a pogram using html and javascript for one of my teachers but i dont know if i can, because im no sure if javascript can save or edt files if anyone knows if it can or cant please post and can i have the code? thanks

yeah thats what i figured but i dont want to use PHP because then i would have to install a sever and PHP on my teachers computer... is there any other language that can edit/make files that doesnt need to be hosted on a sever?

i think i will try vbscript

Answer 1

You can use VBScript and the FileSystemObject to create/read/write/append files

However you will have to allow scripting and click yes to a ActiveX interation ;)




Some website




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Come to think of it JavaScript can use ActiveX objects too...



should also work....still with 0 use of anything serverside... just need to be running in IE and using Windows (FF doesn't load ActiveX still right?)

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also make all files .hta and not .html... that should remove all warnings and run it as a html application (with normal exe permissions). so all the code will just "run" :)

Answer 2

Sure! contrary to popular belief, it can be done... it's called AJAX, you can read a file modify the file and 'post' the file back! either with server extensions or a simple 5 line cgi program.

the strengths of ajax incude simple text files, xml files, json (javascript object notation (I think!)) your files come right into a string, a 'dom' or an object, and can be written directly to a disk or inserted to a database, or sent to you as e-mail! it's all the power of the cgi languages with the ease of javascript!

Although I said javascript is easy, ajax done with a quality library is still easy. I use jquery (http://jquery.com) and simple ajax requests are only a few lines of code!

Answer 3

No - javascript doesn't have access to the local file system of a user and doesn't have capabilities to modify files. PHP would be a better bet for this...

Answer 4

not that i know of...try javascript.com, maybe that can help