Extracting data from existing web pages

[dukie4eva]

hello all i am a novice at web/html programming so bear with me. However, I am not new to programming in general. here is my problem(and I am not sure the best way to do ), I have three existing web pages(not web sites) that contain statistical data on budget/financial information. example, they show how much a specific client spen for a given day, week, mont, etc. Each time frame has its own web page. This information is created automatically throught a report generation on a server. My question is I need to be able to combine the monthly statistical data from the three clients into one web page/report. Now these reports or web pages have html code generated. So I need a way to grab the statisitcal data and combine them so I can have a monthly summary of what the three clients have spent. Is this something Frontpage/Dreamweaver could do easily or do I need to write a javascript/java program? Please help!!!


doug

[jalarie]

I'm thinking a four-frame page which pulls the three pages into three frames and a fourth frame has a script. The script reads the code of the other three frames, skips the html, combines the data, and displays the result.

Can you give an example of the three pages? Dummy-up any personal data, and shorten it to just what is needed to get the idea. Maybe one of us can help.

[dukie4eva]

Thanks for the reply. Attached you will find web page similiar to the one I will be using. For the frames I assume that Frontpage has the capabilities of creating those? What kind of script would I use; something like javascript? :confused: Hope this helps you thanks for the information and help

doug

[welsh]

so you will be sending this file to someone? if so, that knocks out serverside languages (php, asp). if not it makes it easier. im wonding could u make another zip folder that has what you would like the summary to be like, as well as say 2 monthly pages. the problem i think u run into is havin information from 1 form and another and being able to pass the stuff over with javascript. i know this would be easy for me using php and a database like mysql or even possibly a text file but it wont run on someones computer unless you have it on a webserver they can access or a test server installed on their computer. High unlikely.

[dukie4eva]

all four pages have the same format and everything, except that the summary page has the totals of all three of the individual pages. The columsn such as amount, count, type, etc are the same on all four pages. The summary page is simply a summary or total of the three individual pages. This will then be uploaded to a server that will display the monthly summary in iexplorer. I suppose I could try putting the individual pages in a database, but my problem is that the form I receive them in is in html so I dont know....... :confused: I was their is a solution as simple as doing a webpage and having it extract data(either using a script embeded in monthly summary web page or something) from the 3 individual pages and combine into the monthly summary page.