It can be a pain reading/writing binary data regardless if what server side code you use. I'd advise against it unless you need to hide the Word docs from someone coming along and accessing them directly. If you use a good authentication/authorization mechanism to protect the web app, you shouldn't have to store them on the database.
You could use some simple code in your server-side app to give the files a new name while writing them to a folder. And you'd store the filename/location to the database as a string (varchar). Then other apps could also access the files if necessary. - Alex C --- In [email protected], Jeffry Houser <j...@...> wrote: > > > Although possible to save binary docs in a database, I recommend > against it. Save them on disk and put a pointer in the database. > > If you're adamant about storing the files in the database looking into > the BLOB data type (Binary Large OBjects ). I imagine if you send it to > the database > > That said, were you having any specific problems transferring a word > doc back and forth? It's just bytes, so I doubt you'd need any encoder > / decoder. Displaying a word doc in an AIR file would be an impressive > treat if you can pull it off, though. > > markflex2007 wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I am doing a Air application and I need save a microsoft word file to > > database and I also need download the file back with AIR. > > > > I maybe need some encoder/decoder technology to do this.but I do not have > > idea about this. > > > > Would you please give me a idea about this. > > > > Thanks for your help > > > > Mark > > > > > > > > > -- > Jeffry Houser, Technical Entrepreneur > Adobe Community Expert: http://tinyurl.com/684b5h > http://www.twitter.com/reboog711 | Phone: 203-379-0773 > -- > Easy to use Interface Components for Flex Developers > http://www.flextras.com?c=104 > -- > http://www.theflexshow.com > http://www.jeffryhouser.com > -- > Part of the DotComIt Brain Trust >
