writing to a file on an external computer

[JesperBisgaard]

Hi

Is it possible for me to write to a file on an external computer? I am building a site where i want the users to be given an unik id the first time they contact the site through a piece of software which i have developed. Their username is found in a settings file on their local harddrive and is sent to the server when they request infromation from the server. Now i want to be able to change the string in the settings file so that after the first request to the server it will contain their unik id as well.

Is this possible?

regards Jesper

[thorpe]

Yes... Its called a [man]cookie[man].

[bpat1434]

On the clients computer? Not really...

On a separate server? Yes ([man]fwrite[/man])

To do anything client-side you'd need a client-side scripting language like JavaScript. I dont' think PHP can actually change documents on the clients computer, it's a security thing....

And you can always use cookies (as Thorpe said) [man]Cookies[/man] <-- properly linked