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Posted by Norman Peelman on 04/26/06 13:35
"McHenry" <mchenry@mchenry.com> wrote in message
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> "Gernot Frisch" <Me@Privacy.net> wrote in message
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> > "McHenry" <mchenry@mchenry.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
> > news:444e06f3$0$30747$5a62ac22@per-qv1-newsreader-01.iinet.net.au...
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> >> "Gernot Frisch" <Me@Privacy.net> wrote in message
> >> news:4b6d08F107p0fU1@individual.net...
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> >>> "McHenry" <mchenry@mchenry.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
> >>> news:444df6ab$0$30732$5a62ac22@per-qv1-newsreader-01.iinet.net.au...
> >>>>I am familiar with asp and have done quite some coding using VBA etc.
> >>>>
> >>>> Presently I have a routine in asp that manipulates MS Excel objects
> >>>> etc, can I control Excel objects in php too ?
> >>>
> >>> Can you tounge-kiss a dog?
> >>>
> >>> Sure you can, but why would you?
> >>>
> >>
> >> I have an Excel sheet that queries 2000 web pages daily and stores the
> >> data in a db...
> >>
> >> Can you suggest another way to reliably query these 1300 pages and
> >> extract the data without using the Excel Web Query function ?
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > 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 ?
> >
> > I can't think of any physical problem with that. Yuck!
> >
p.s. There are several other functions for reading files (or urls)
file_get_contents() is one... do a search on www.php.net
Norm
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