We used S3 as it's a SaaS application built on the AWS platform and it made sense to store client files on S3. On 23 January 2015 at 17:13, 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 >> >> > -- Adrian Walls 23sparks Tel: +44 (0) 28 4179 8226 Mob: +44 (0) 77 3447 3615 Email: awalls@xxxxxxxxxxxx Web: http://www.23sparks.com Registered office: 8 Osborne Promenade, Warrenpoint, Newry, Co. Down BT34 3NQ Registered in Northern Ireland no. NI50666 CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE This email is private and confidential and may contain legally privileged information. If you are not named as an addressee it may be unlawful for you to read, copy, distribute, disclose or otherwise use the information contained in this email. If you are not the intended recipient of this email please destroy this communication and contact awalls@ <awalls@xxxxxxxxxxxx>23sparks.com.
