Re: Web application-AbiWord based

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 Tue Jul 26 15:21:07 2011