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    How to open and edit files on ftp server?

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    by jvnane ·

    I am making a local intranet site at work, and one function it needs to have is the ability to open up files on our shared database and edit them. Once the user is done editing and hits save, it should save to the same spot it was opened from, kind of like updating the file. I read about using the ftp_get() function, but I don’t understand how I would go about saving it back to the same spot on the server automatically.

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    • #3002578

      Clarifications

      by jvnane ·

      In reply to How to open and edit files on ftp server?

      Clarifications

    • #3002561

      With ftp_put …

      by tony hopkinson ·

      In reply to How to open and edit files on ftp server?

      Wouldn’t be automatic, unless you wrote something to do it.
      FTP is file transfer, what you need is file sharing.
      Do these files have to been in a proprietry format, e.g. power point of docx or some such, you might be better off setting up a wiki

    • #3002548

      You’ve now got THREE posts on the same subject ! …

      by older mycroft ·

      In reply to How to open and edit files on ftp server?

      [u]08/05/2009 @ 02:52 AM (PDT)[/u]
      http://techrepublic.com.com/5208-1035-0.html?forumID=101&threadID=314672

      [u]08/05/2009 @ 05:38 AM (PDT)[/u]
      http://techrepublic.com.com/5208-6230-0.html?forumID=101&threadID=314691&messageID=3133668

      [u]08/06/2009 @ 12:55 AM (PDT)[/u]
      Were now on your THIRD post in less than 24 hours!

      What is more, you appear to have ignored whatever answers you recieved from the previous 2 threads.

      Are you thinking that if you post often enough then someone will give you the answer you want?? – You’re only going to get the correct answer.

      If you don’t like the correct answer, another posting will not change it!

      • #3002540

        Fu_ck You

        by jvnane ·

        In reply to You’ve now got THREE posts on the same subject ! …

        I keep posting, because I am not getting answers that solve my problem. I then re-read my statement to try and find ways I can change my wording to maybe encourage more answers. I am also working on solutions while I am waiting for answers. I can then find step by step solutions which then create new problems. That is why I make NEW posts… I would just reply to my original thread, which got no replies by the way, but they seem to die, LIKE THE FIRST ONE DID!

        The answers aren’t bad, they are just general, so I then have to do some researching on my own. This then makes new questions, which are best answered with a SIMILAR, but different post.

        • #3002532

          Ooh – sweary words from Dulles Ditchwater, Virginia …

          by older mycroft ·

          In reply to Fu_ck You

          I refuse to reply to any imbecile.

          Spent far too many years getting hot under the collar, rising to feeling like venting someone’s spleen all because I was conversing with a moron at a keyboard.

          No more – I don’t need it.

          [i][b]I blow my nose at you!![/b] I fart in your general direction. Your Mother was a hamster and your father smelt of Elderberries. [/i]

        • #3002525

          Don’t live in Dulles

          by jvnane ·

          In reply to Ooh – sweary words from Dulles Ditchwater, Virginia …

          I work at the embassy in Poland, which has a pouch running through Dulles… I’ve never even been there. Also, don’t call me a moron just because you can’t think of logical argumentative comeback.

        • #3025118

          ftp read not edit…

          by ssinfa ·

          In reply to Don’t live in Dulles

          To change the question slightly, is there a way to have the file display the content so you can see if you want to download it to edit it???

          I thought there was a page command, to function like cat in linux, or type in dos.

          Thanks.

        • #3024994

          It would still be a downloaded local copy

          by seanferd ·

          In reply to ftp read not edit…

          regardless as to whether it is in your temporary network cache or on your desktop. FTP and HTTP work that way. You really want a different setup entirely.

        • #3002517

          I’ll give you a little HINT

          by thumbsup2 ·

          In reply to Fu_ck You

          People who make multiple posts on the same topic tend to NOT get any help at all around here. You got no answer to your original question BECAUSE you posted a duplicate question. We replied to the 2nd.

          If you have further questions after we’ve provided SOME help on a topic, ask those questions under the original thread. That way, we can all follow along with the progression of the question(s) and possible answers.

          Yes, your original question can drop off the radar when it’s inactive. All you have to do is go back through your profile (forum posts), find the original question, click on it, read the answers and reply to one (or more) of them. You can even reply to your own question with the words BUMP in the title so we know why you posted it. The very act of you replying returns your whole thread to the top of the forums.

        • #3003320

          You aren’t really asking a question, you are asking

          by tony hopkinson ·

          In reply to Fu_ck You

          for a solution to choosing the wrong tech.

          Amending a copy of a shared document using FTP or HTTP, essentially means, downloading a local copy, editimg it at your leasure and then uploading it. Even if you managed to automate this, which is friggin unlikely what if two people are working on the document at the same time. So now you need to lock it for editing, or somehow do a merge….

          Sharepoint, a basic fileshare, a Wiki, or am inhouse application are the approaches for this, not a web page and not an FTP prompt.

          Trying to turn a square into a wheel isn’t going to cut it.

    • #3003176

      file TRANSFER protocol

      by balge ·

      In reply to How to open and edit files on ftp server?

      the clues in the name….
      Go away and read up on it, then you’ll understand what’s so risible. Possibly.

      cheers

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