With just plain old PHP and even some Javascript built in this is actually very difficult if not impossible to do as PHP was never designed to interact with a users PC. Javascript was however designed to run client-side but does not have direct access to a users hard drive for obvious security reasons. The only way you may get past this is to use another plugin. I am not sure which plugin would be useful, perhaps Flash, but as far as I know even Java (not Javascript) cannot do this (but I stand to be corrected on that). You may also want to look into Google Gears (which I have not yet used). The problem with these scenarios is that you will need the user to download a plugin for their browser.
Essentially, the easiest way is to let them upload, the changes are made by PHP, then PHP prompts the user to re-download the changed file. Regards Gareth McCumskey ----- Original Message ----- From: "bibijosh" <dorothee.arno...@gmail.com> To: "symfony users" <symfony-users@googlegroups.com> Sent: Thursday, January 14, 2010 7:02:43 PM GMT +02:00 Harare / Pretoria Subject: [symfony-users] Open an Excel file Hi, I'm quite new to Symfony, and not really good at php in the first place. So if someone could give me a hand here. Here is what my website does for now : - Open an explorer window so the user can upload an excel file - Modify that file - Save it on my server. Here is what I would like to do : - Open an explorer window so the user can upload an excel file - Modify that file AND THEN open it in an Excel Window. (I can only manage to display it in my webpage, which doesn't look good at all, I heard it could be because of the mime type actions...) AND/OR - Save it on the user's computer, where it was first uploaded from, without the user having to do anything. I'll welcome any advice. I'm using php5, Symfony 1.0 and IE 6 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "symfony users" group. To post to this group, send email to symfony-us...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to symfony-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/symfony-users?hl=en.
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