Is it possible to write to a file (on a disk) using JavaScript?

Question

I am a novice-intermediate programmer taking a stab at AJAX. While reading up on JavaScript I found it curious that most of the examples I\'ve been drawing on use PHP for su

Answer 1

You can use something like Google Gears to produce JS applications which are capable of storing data in a local cache or database. You can't read or write arbitrary areas of the disk though. (This was written in 2009 - Google Gears is now deprecated)

These days, you should be looking at the local storage capabilities provided by HTML5