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Posted by Jerry Stuckle on 12/16/66 11:59
smk17 wrote:
> 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
>
Steve,
Either having a page requiring login or parsing scores from an Excel
file is going to take a little server side programming. Neither would
be too hard, depending on what other things you have available (i.e.
database, etc.). But if you're not familiar with PHP you're going to
have a little trouble with it.
Maybe you can find someone locally who is familiar with a server side
language such as PHP or Perl. Either one should be able to do what you
wish.
And unfortunately, I don't know of any prepackaged scripts for something
like this. Both are simple enough I normally just write them to suit
the site.
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