thanks for the quick reply, I will keep in mind from next time that its to be send to the group (though I did send to the group also !). Anyways, I am very new to PHP (just about 3 days old) so I need to know a lot! I am actually new to a scripting language only ! Thanks once again vaibhav On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 07:56:58 -0500, Jason Barnett <jason.barnett@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Please send responses to the newsgroup. I am usually happy to help you > out, but I do need to keep things organized / slightly sane on my end :) > > The short answer to your question below: yes you can use Word with PHP > and depending on your needs this might happen on the server or you might > just send a Word document to a browser with the correct mime-type. > > Based on what you say in your message what you want to do is read the > file's contents on the server side. You don't even need to open Word to > do this. Then when you get the file contents you can send the MIME > header and the content of the file to the browser. Note that this > doesn't *force* the user to open the file through Adobe etc. but it > gives the browser an idea of what to do with the file and gives the user > that option. > > Oh, and be careful which files you decide to make public and be > *especially* careful which files you allow people to edit and put on the > server. You probably already know that, but it doesn't hurt to be > reminded from time to time :) > > > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: Re: Re: SESSION > Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 11:43:24 +0530 > From: Vaibhav Sibal <vaibhavsibal@xxxxxxxxx> > Reply-To: Vaibhav Sibal <vaibhavsibal@xxxxxxxxx> > To: php <php-windows@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Jason Barnett > <jason.barnett@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > References: <acc34eef0502101355617ae734@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > <20050210223812.10365.qmail@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > Thanks Jason ! It'll be great if you could also tell me whether I can > launch applications like MS WORD using COM or any other technology. > Basically I want the user sitting on a client machine to select a > file from a list and press the open button (which I will provide) and > the action linked to the open button should be that of opening the > file in the appropriate software . For eg. The user sitting on the > client side select a file image001.jpg and presses open, and it > automatically gets opened in Adobe photoshop. That kind of thing I am > talking about. The only thing to be taken in mind is that the client > does not have a PHP parser installed and is not running a webserver > either. The file list comes from the server only, which is actually > running the webserver and the PHP parser also. ! Please provide some > insight on this. > > On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 17:36:05 -0500, Jason Barnett > <jason.barnett@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Vaibhav Sibal wrote: > > > I wanted to ask, where is the Session information stored ? That is at > > > the server or on the client. Because I need to give the > > > session.save_path value in the php.ini. I would give it according to > > > people's reply of this question. Thank you. > > > > > > Vaibhav > > > > session.save_path is located on the server. Session data is stored on > > the server; typically the only thing that gets sent to the user is they > > will have a cookie written (wherever the web browser writes its cookies). > > > > -- > Teach a man to fish... > > NEW? | http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html > STFA | http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=php-general&w=2 > STFM | http://www.php.net/manual/en/index.php > STFW | http://www.google.com/search?q=php > LAZY | > http://mycroft.mozdev.org/download.html?name=PHP&submitform=Find+search+plugins > > > -- PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
