I think what the OP meant (certainly what I meant), is that the Word doc is accessed from a normal link. Clients use windows and the browser has the .doc mime type set and spawns Word. The user edits it. I had (vainly) hoped for a way of setting the "File..Save As" to trigger PHP's File Upload facility.
Has anyone had this need, found a way around it or found it not possible? Thanks for the WebDAV pointer. I shall certainly be looking into that but I had hoped for a simpler way compatible with existing windows versions. Longer term it looks the right way to go. Thanks Chris Kevin Stone wrote: >Of course you can open and edit any file in PHP you just need to know the >file format. But I highly doubt there is any method using PHP that will >allow you to prompt the opening of a file into an external application. >Editing of the file would have to be done in memory, or manually in the >browser (HTML form, textarea field). Unfortunately Microsoft is notoriously >protective of its file formats. >-Kevin > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Chris Hewitt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "David Russell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Cc: "php-general" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Monday, July 08, 2002 11:51 AM >Subject: Re: [PHP] Editing Word Documents > > >>David Russell wrote: >> >>>------------snip---------------------- >>>5. The client then closes the file, it "auto-saves" and he goes about >>>his business. >>> >>By coincidence, I'd be very interested in this too, particularly from a >>linux server. >> >>Regards >> >>Chris >> >> >>-- >>PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) >>To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >> > > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
