Re: Editing Word Documents

I think what the OP meant (certainly what I meant), is that the Word doc is accessed from a normal link. Clients use windows and the browser has the .doc mime type set and spawns Word. The user edits it. I had (vainly) hoped for a way of setting the "File..Save As" to trigger PHP's File Upload facility. Has anyone had this need, found a way around it or found it not possible? Thanks for the WebDAV pointer. I shall certainly be looking into that but I had hoped for a simpler way compatible with existing windows versions. Longer term it looks the right way to go. Thanks Chris Kevin Stone wrote:

Of course you can open and edit any file in PHP you just need to know the file format. But I highly doubt there is any method using PHP that will allow you to prompt the opening of a file into an external application. Editing of the file would have to be done in memory, or manually in the browser (HTML form, textarea field). Unfortunately Microsoft is notoriously protective of its file formats. -Kevin ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Hewitt" <g0pae@manordat.demon.co.uk> To: "David Russell" <DavidR@BarloworldOptimus.com> Cc: "php-general" <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Monday, July 08, 2002 11:51 AM Subject: Re: [PHP] Editing Word Documents

David Russell wrote:

------------snip---------------------- 5. The client then closes the file, it "auto-saves" and he goes about his business.

By coincidence, I'd be very interested in this too, particularly from a linux server. Regards Chris -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php