Re: Open, edit & save document via browser

Why did you pick S3? If you could switch to google drive instead ( 100GB 1.99 a month, 1TB 9.99 a month ) their API allows you to use php to open and edit .docx files https://developers.google.com/drive/web/integrate-open On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 11:53 AM, Jeffry Killen <jekillen@prodigy.net> wrote: > > On Jan 23, 2015, at 4:59 AM, Adrian Walls wrote: > > Hi, >> >> I'm trying to find a solution which via our application would open a >> document (docx) stored on AWS S3 allowing a user to make amendments to the >> document on their local machine via MS Office or OpenOffice but when they >> click save it would automatically save the document all the way back to >> S3. >> >> Is this something that would be possible to implement and if so I'd >> appreciate any suggestions as how I would go about it. I've had a look at >> Webdav but I'm don't think it's suitable for this task as the documents >> are >> stored in various different accounts on the system plus I can't see how to >> push this all the way back to S3. >> >> Thanks in advance. >> > > Hi: > > I think that the closest you will get to this is to use an ftp client. > forgive my ignorance but I am not familiar with S3. IF it is sometning > the user can establish an ftp connection to, then in the ftp client > preferences > find the preference that allows you to tell the ftp client what > application to > open a file with. This would require the user to have a local ftp client > installed > ( use Fetch on Mac OSX), and the preference set. > > In my case I establish a connection to a host, local or remote, and open a > file > for edit. The file is opened in the application specified and then the > changes > are saved back to the original file at the location it was opened from. > > JK > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >