Re: Open, edit & save document via browser

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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@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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
>
>
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