Re: Open, edit & save document via browser

On 23 January 2015 17:16:42 GMT+00:00, David OBrien <dgobrien@gmail.com> wrote: >On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 12:13 PM, David OBrien <dgobrien@gmail.com> >wrote: > >> 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 >>> >>> >> Sorry for the previous top post > >Also this says you can create a link to a file stored on s3 and open it >from there.... > >Also, applications can create shortcuts to data stored outside of >Drive, in >a different data store or cloud storage system. If you need to store >files >or file-like resources outside of Drive for any reason, shortcuts allow >you >to still list them in Google Drive. > >Shortcuts behave a lot like files. They can be opened and created, >indexed >in search, and shared with other users. Unlike regular files, shortcuts >do >not contain any content, and when synced to a desktop are opened as >URLs in >the user's browser. Synced shortcut files are assigned the >.glinkextension. > >For information and code samples for shortcuts, see Create a shortcut >to a >file ><https://developers.google.com/drive/web/integrate-create#create_a_shortcut_to_a_file> >. If you have full rights on your hosting, there is a fuse Ffilesystem in USEr space) module to allow you to connect an s3 volume as a local mount. That might help from an access pov Thanks, Ash