| Displaying a Word/Excel document on the Web [message #255945] |
Thu, 02 August 2007 08:53  |
Duane
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Ok, I want to store Word, Excel and PDF documents in an Oracle table and then make those documents available for people to see via the web.
My question, how do I make the documents available to the web as a hyperlink so that they can be viewed? Do I have to write the document to the Oracle server, or any available server, for the document to be available? Meaning, I must extract the document out of the table and then write it to some folder on the server with the hyperlink pointing to it?
What is the practice to accomplish this task?
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| Re: Displaying a Word/Excel document on the Web [message #255979 is a reply to message #255945] |
Thu, 02 August 2007 10:53  |
Duane
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I thought there might be a certain method in doing it, such as, htp.print or htp.p to write HTML. I was just wondering if there was a certain way to do the task, that's all.
I searched askTom and it looks like he has come up with a way to read the BLOB and then display that to the web.
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| Re: Displaying a Word/Excel document on the Web [message #255984 is a reply to message #255945] |
Thu, 02 August 2007 11:19 |
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BlackSwan
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You don't know, what you don't know.
Yes, it can be done, but I suspect you'll have a LONG and arduous journey before you have a functioning application.
In some/many/most cases an application server (AS) sits between the browser at the client side and the database.
The AS can be eliminated by using JSP or PSP architectures; neither of which are trivial to implement.
I suggest you take a serious look at Oracle Express.
It is GUI based & may be something you can handle.
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