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Can I put a spreadsheet on my website?
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| walterbyrd 2006-11-19, 7:55 pm |
| I know there are a ton of free online spreadsheets. But, is there
anyway I could connect to one of these spreadsheets without leaving my
website? Or, is there some spreadsheet module I could include?
I don't need a fully functional spreadsheet. Just the basics.
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| Concreteman 2006-11-19, 7:55 pm |
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walterbyrd wrote:
> I know there are a ton of free online spreadsheets. But, is there
> anyway I could connect to one of these spreadsheets without leaving my
> website? Or, is there some spreadsheet module I could include?
>
> I don't need a fully functional spreadsheet. Just the basics.
A "real" windows host can provide interactive spreadsheet capabilities
with excel spreadsheets and there are tools to manipulate spreadsheets
on linux boxes. It is real easy to just view or up/download
spreadsheets, editting them in place is a little more difficult.
What exactly are you doing with the spreadsheet? Most spreadsheet stuff
should be in a DB in my opinion with a frontend to modify/view it. Some
people don't neccessarily aggree with my opinion though.
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| David J. Hennessy 2006-11-19, 7:55 pm |
| walterbyrd wrote:
> I know there are a ton of free online spreadsheets. But, is there
> anyway I could connect to one of these spreadsheets without leaving my
> website? Or, is there some spreadsheet module I could include?
>
> I don't need a fully functional spreadsheet. Just the basics.
>
I know that a while ago, you could plug a spreadsheet into a web page
with an ActiveX object. I think this required a Windows server running
IIS. This would render a "spreadsheet box" in your page that would read
straight from the spreadsheet, as if it were a data source. (Naturally,
this is an MS Excel thing.) It required Internet Explorer and Microsoft
Office to be installed on the viewer's machine.
Personally, I think your best bet is to do what I did, shortly after
seeing how clunky the results of the above method are. Create an iframe
on your web page, and in your favorite spreadsheet editor, click File >>
Save As >> HTML (or whatever the equivalent option is). Then you can
keep a reasonably up-to-date platform-independent HTML spreadsheet on
your server, which is included by your page via the iframe, and just
overwrite the file whenever you need to update.
If you need interactive functionality between multiple users, either
dump the spreadsheet & go with a database application, or con$ider u$ing
Micro$oft'$ $olution$ for collaborating with Office document$ via the web.
--
David J. Hennessy
http://maidix.com/
http://choicesolver.com/
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| walterbyrd 2006-11-19, 7:55 pm |
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Concreteman wrote:
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> What exactly are you doing with the spreadsheet? Most spreadsheet stuff
> should be in a DB in my opinion with a frontend to modify/view it. Some
> people don't neccessarily aggree with my opinion though.
I'm not doing anything that can't be done with a DB. I just think a
spreadsheet would be more flexible.
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| Arnie Goetchius 2006-11-19, 7:55 pm |
| walterbyrd wrote:
> Concreteman wrote:
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> I'm not doing anything that can't be done with a DB. I just think a
> spreadsheet would be more flexible.
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Do a Google on "openoffice spreadsheet" PHP apache
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| walterbyrd 2006-11-19, 7:58 pm |
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Arnie Goetchius wrote:
> Do a Google on "openoffice spreadsheet" PHP apache
That doesn't seem to tell me anything. I am looking for an AJAX script,
or some website spreadsheet that I can somehow include within my
website; or something of that nature.
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