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Posted by McHenry on 04/25/06 15:28
"Gernot Frisch" <Me@Privacy.net> wrote in message
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> "McHenry" <mchenry@mchenry.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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>> "Gernot Frisch" <Me@Privacy.net> wrote in message
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>>> "McHenry" <mchenry@mchenry.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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>>>>I am familiar with asp and have done quite some coding using VBA etc.
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>>>> Presently I have a routine in asp that manipulates MS Excel objects
>>>> etc, can I control Excel objects in php too ?
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>>> Can you tounge-kiss a dog?
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>>> Sure you can, but why would you?
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>> I have an Excel sheet that queries 2000 web pages daily and stores the
>> data in a db...
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>> Can you suggest another way to reliably query these 1300 pages and
>> extract the data without using the Excel Web Query function ?
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> querying web pages in php is possible and easy. Storing in a database is,
> too. You can propably almost copy/paste that part. php has very usefull
> functions for string parsing, so this part is much easier, however you
> have to re-write it.
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> You can use Excel+VBA - but your server must support it. But - what is the
> use of php then?
So php can't control Excel objects like VBA can ?
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>> p.s. regarding the dog comment... how do you know it can be done ?
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> I can't think of any physical problem with that. Yuck!
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