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Posted by smk17 on 12/16/58 11:58
I apologoze for not giving a good subject line, but I have no idea what
to even ask for...
I've made a website about high school basketball in New York State. One
thing I want to put on the site are the scores from each of the games
and I'd like to somehow get the scores up ASAP. There are many games
basically every night of the week. With around 70 teams in my
particular section. One way to do it would be to "hire" a
representative from each school (a player, coach, fan, parent, etc.) to
volunteer to send me the scores from his/her game through email. This
might work but it would require a lot of work on my part reading each
email and posting the scores manually. Or I could look at all the
online newspapers and post those scores to my site. But I want the
scores up even quicker than that. And I'm sure there would be times
where I wouldn't find articles on all the games. Yes, I may be crazy.
So I thought maybe there would be a way where this volunteer could go
to a password protected web page, fill out a form or something that is
specific to his/her school, with the score, date, teams, etc. and that
would automatically update that section of my website that has all the
scores on it. I wouldn't have to do anything.... :-)
Or maybe they send me an Excel sheet after every game and my scores
page is "hooked" to that excel sheet and just by updating the Excel
sheet to the server, the scores in the web page are updated. I know a
guy from another section does it this way, but he has one Excel sheet
with all the scores from it. This excel sheet comes from a guy who runs
a clearing house at his home where all the coaches call him after their
games. They leave their message on the machine, he listens to the
message, and he puts all the scores into this one excel sheet, sends it
to the webmaster from that section, and vwalla, the scores are there.
He said it was all done with javascript or php, maybe both.
section4hoops.com
I am not familiar with writing javascript or php, but have downloaded
many scripts and used them correctly.What I do not know is how the
connection is made between the Excel sheet and my webpage.
Can anyone point me in the right direction or maybe you have another
solution I hadn't thought about.
Thanks
Steve
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