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Is there any way in which a PHP powered web app can store data in a user's Google account? (after requesting permission from the user)

Basically I want to stay away from storing private user data on my server.

App will be handling mostly documents / text data.

lostsource
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There is the google docs api: http://code.google.com/apis/documents/

But if want private data for the app, you'll need to store it somewhere else than Google. With OpenAuth (or OpenID) you'd not need to worry about personal info.

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  • right, so I could allow users to create stuff on my web app, then save as separate docs on their account, and locally I will just need to keep relations between these documents appropriately. correct ? – lostsource Apr 18 '11 at 20:06
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    Yes you could be able to do that. The user will still be able to manipulate those docs outside of your application, but you might easily create a separate "folder" to mark them, so that the user will be distracted to do so. – sukru Apr 19 '11 at 04:33