importing an external file...

[mginsberg]

in flash i know how to make it so i can just edit the .txt file instead of loading up flash to edit the text.


however, i am working on a real estate site for someone.

i would like to create a section on the web site where all they have to do is edit an excel spread sheet and upload it into the server and then it edits the website.

instead of having them download dreamwevaer..and teaching them how to use it..


can this be done?

please guide me in the right direction!!

[ryanbutler]

If possible, it would be a heck of a lot of work and time consuming, not to mention a bit back asswards. Why don't you have them get a trial download of Contribute and have them edit the pages with this software? It's very user friendly to a non-websavvy person. If they decide they like it, I think it's about $149. Matter of fact, my employer uses it.

http://www.adobe.com/products/contribute/

[mginsberg]

a lot of work on whos part?
once i find out the html code to put into the webste all they have to do is edit the excel sheet and upload it.

i will take a look into that though. thanks.

[ryanbutler]

a lot of work on whos part?
once i find out the html code to put into the webste all they have to do is edit the excel sheet and upload it.

Yours. Last time I checked Excel saves information in binary. You'd have to pro grammatically export all the data to CSV and then pro grammatically check the output in your page for proper display, at least that's my initial thought.