Posted by mbstevens on 12/05/06 15:26

On Tue, 05 Dec 2006 06:30:19 -0800, payperclick.brandon@gmail.com wrote:

> I could easily build individual web pages, the problem is I have 7000
> rows in the spreadsheet. It seems like it would be far easier to have a
> single page that dynamically generates based upon the URL rather than
> lots of unique pages.

That's going to be one *big* webpage for your visitors to navigate
through.


> Changing 7000 pages then changing
> them back would be a nightmare. Whereas changing the prices in Excel
> and uploading that spreadsheet is a snap.

Generate the pages server side, use a CMS, or use a preprocessor and
upload.

> Does this require a more advanced programming
> language or can it be done in HTML? if not HTML which language is the
> most user friendly to accomplish this.

You'll need to be able to extract the info (in rows probably) from the
spreadsheet to feed to the server side program, a CMS, or a
preprocessor. I don't know excel in particular, but it will almost surely
be able to write its information to a comma-delimited file. Knowing a
little Python or Perl will probably be helpful getting that information
ready for your program to gnaw on.
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mbstevens
http://www.mbstevens.com

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