Document Manager.....Pls Help

[Forri]

Hi

My boss would like to save documents on the server. Since documents can vary from *.doc to open office *.sxw or*.pdf ai will need a way to store the data and represent it once again!


is this possible or? how can i manage this? any ideas pls!


Thanks
Nicky

 

[jimoblak]

You are not describing the server. FTP, WebDAV, Samba, etc? How do you envision this being any different than saving to a networked hard drive?

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[Forri]

oops sorry!

well this should be an intranet working on apache! using web forms my boss can upload the document and it should be saved....now if its saved as the document itself (which cannot be since the server is linux it will definetly not support *.doc files) or else parse the data within the document and transalates it either to xml or to binary file and stored in mySQL! Is this possible or?

Thanks again
Nick

 

[KarveR]

!!?? you can store any type of document under linux, - I kind of miss your aim too.

I think you misunderstand the basics of file systems when talking about Linux.

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[Forri]

U're right maybe i'm not explaining well! I'll try again...

The documents are uploaded onto a Linux server. These documents can be of any type ...Word, open office, pdf etc. When the client tries to view a file it has to be viewed as HTML only. What i'm asking is if i can read the document before being uploaded , parse it and make it suitable as HTML (can use XML/XSL) then save it in a MYSQL database for retrieval. Later on this document can be ammended or scrapped!

Hope i made myself a little bit clearer!

thanks
Nick