On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 12:13 PM, David OBrien <dgobrien@xxxxxxxxx> 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@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 >> >> >> >> -- >> 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> .
