Re: Web application-AbiWord based

Dear Oussama,

It is possible but tedious if you don't already have all the libraries
needed on the server. You would have to load all these yourself into
some local directory and set up environment variables so that they are
found.

Best regards,

Martin

On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 5:44 AM, Oussama Chammam <ou_cha@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> Thank You Martin for the answer
>
>  I do already know about
> the existence of that command line plugin, but the question is if it is possible to just
> copy an "AbiWord installation folder" to the server through FTP
>  and run AbiWord from it (using PHP or
> Python)??
>
> regards, Oussama
>
> ----------------------------------------
>> Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2011 23:20:40 +1000
>> Subject: Re: Web application-AbiWord based
>> From: msevior@gmail.com
>> To: ou_cha@hotmail.com
>> CC: abiword-dev@abisource.com
>>
>>
>> Dear Oussama,
>>
>> Thank you for your interest in AbiWord. AbiWord can indeed be used in
>> a headless webserver, althugh you do need the gtk libraries to be
>> installed on the system
>>
>> To see an example of a very powerful abiword-driven website see:
>>
>> http://abicollab.net
>>
>> We use the command line plugin to create a long-lived server.
>>
>> See:
>>
>> http://www.abisource.com/wiki/AbiCommand
>>
>> For various emaples with code.
>>
>> Good luck!
>>
>> Martin
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 6:47 PM, Oussama Chammam <ou_cha@hotmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> > Hi AbiWord community!
>> >   Thank you for that awesome program!
>> >
>> > What I want to do:
>> > ===========
>> > Develop a simple web document converter (from doc to html) that works on a shared host.
>> >
>> > Different ways to implement it:
>> > =================
>> > 1) use a ctypes in Python to use a shared library like libabiword or libwv
>> >  (can I have a local copy of them so they do not need to be installed in
>> >  shared host server?)
>> > 2) upload a standalone copy of AbiWord/wvWare using php_exec() or a
>> > similar Python/Perl command (is that possible? none-linux standard
>> > libraries has to be integrated into AbiWord at compile time... is that
>> > true?)
>> > 3) call AbiWord/wvWare using php_exec() or a similar Python/Perl command (is not applicable in a shared host: they won't install the software on the server, some hosts do also prevent using php_exec())
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >   I would prefer to use the first option, but I'm not sure if libabiword contains any none-GTK functions. I'm not either sure what functions both libabiword and libwv do provide (I did not find any documentation about it)
>> >
>> > Please give me tips how to start and which functions are usable. Also let me know if there is a better way to do it.
>> >
>> > PS. I saw that many people wants this functionality on their shared hosts; and if I success in doing it I will make it available for all them!
>> >
>> > Thank you in advance
>> > Oussama C.
>> >
>
Received on Wed Jul 27 09:02:27 2011