ok sorry, let me try and explain the process better....
this installation will be set up in a gallery, with a group of people as an audience. There will be a load of computers set up in the room that are connected to the local network. People will be able to enter text into a browser, basically responding to initial prompts, and these passages of text are then sent to the MySQL database to store them.
From this we then need to take these passages of text and manipulate them live (the end results will be projected as part of an audio visual show), and what we need is to take the text and have them exported as .txt files (which are then pulled into Apple Quartz Composer).
basically, what we want is that each text entry is exported straight away from MySQL as a txt file into a folder (on the local server) that we can then pull out.
The process that we don't know how to do is exporting the text entries from the DB as text files....
hope this helps?
many thanks