Automate Data Entry (from An Excel Spreadsheet) Into An Online Database
Feb 23, 2011
I'm writing a program that would automate data entry (from an excel spreadsheet) into an online database. I've been doing them one by one for the past couple of weeks...only have about 10,000 left.
For a project in my high school web design class, I need to integrate an Excel spreadsheet as data so to speak for a web page. I want to pull the prices from the sheet, and make them appear on the page. I'd like to pull it from the sheet so that the client can still adjust and edit the prices without having to reach the actual webpage. Conceptually, I thought this would be fairly straight forward, but in researching how to do this, I got very confused. I'm not even positive that I'm putting this in the right section.
So my main question is this: Is there a way to integrate an Excel spreadsheet in such a way that it can provide data for certain fields of a webpage? If so, can someone please explain how?
I am trying to create a web page in which the contents of one selection list depends upon which element in another selection list is chosen, but where the information to populate the first selection list comves from an SQL database on the web server.
There are a couple of these situations in my application but, for example, the first list might be a list of counties, and the second list a list of states/provinces. Obviously the names of counties depend upon which state/province is chosen, but there are too many possibilities to be able to embed them within the web page itself. So when the user selects a state/province I need to go to the server to ask for the list of counties.
I have seen a number of posts that sort of address this issue. For example it is suggested to use <script src="a URL"/> to ask the server side code to send up data of type "text/javascript". However the examples do not seem to address how the server side code would know which state/province the user had selected.
If there is a web site that addresses this sort of thing, I would appreciate any pointers.
I have a textbox on one of my forms that is used to accept a time from the user. I need to write this value to a database to trigger an event later on.
What I'd like to know is...
Are there any functions in javascript that can convert different time formats to a known format (24 hour clock)... 5pm -> 17:00 or 5:00 to 05:00, etc. ???
Assuming that I get the input into a 24 hour format, how can I create a full time/date variable with todays date and the users entered time?
Finally, if the entered time is earlier than the current time, how can I create the above date/time combination using tomorrows date?
I am new to jquery and JavaScript in general and I want to access data in Google Spreadsheet. So at first I published a spreadsheet to be able to retrieve a JSON feed like mentioned here: Simple example of retrieving JSON feeds from Spreadsheets Data APINow I can get a JSON-File - the specific file is this: My Google Spreadsheet JSON
But I was not able to display any data as of now. My code looks like this: <!DOCTYPE html> <html><head> <title>the title</title> <script src="[URL]" type="text/javascript"></script> <script type="text/javascript"> jQuery(document).ready(function() { jQuery.noConflict(); // probably I need this because in the JSON-feed there are $t-objects jQuery.getJSON("[URL]", function listEntries(json) { var content = document.createTextNode(json.feed.entry[2].title.$t); jQuery("p.inhalt").append(content); });}); </script></head><body> <p class="inhalt"></p> </body></html> So if this looks like noob-code - it is. How the code should look like if a wanted to access the data in the spreadsheet?
I have a table in a database that gets populated by a client application. Whenever an entry is written to the table I want to fetch the data (which contains the longitude and latitude) and display a marker on Google Maps. I am using the Google Maps Javascript V3 API. Reading the tuples from the database is currently done through a PHP script. How can I update the map each time a tuple is written to the database?
I put together this quick form that allows a user to sign up - the data.php just basically checks a mysql db if the username exists, and either-if it doesn't exist - create an entry in the database with the username, pw, and email and echo "Congratulations, you are added";-if it does exist - it echo "Sorry but 'xxx' is already taken, try again!";his is the weird part though. This works perfect in FF, but IE6 has a weird issue (I only have IE6 here can't test anything else) - With IE6, if the page is freshly loaded, it gives me the correct message - that is, if i put a non-existent name in, it does the echo"Congratulations, you are added"; but if I click on submit again - it doesn't echo "Sorry but 'xxx' is already taken, try again!"; (it does on FF) -If I start a fresh page and input a name that's already in the database it does echo "Sorry but 'xxx' is already taken, try again!"; -- but if i change the username to something that doesn't exist - it doesn't change the echo (i.e. it still says "Sorry but 'xxx' is already taken, try again!"; - but the record is created in mysql! code:
I am writing a small data entry screen that will post the form data to a page and return a message. But i cannot get the Success or Error functions working properly.
Here's the code where strData is the posted querystring of:
I'm not sure whether it should be in a form and using the onsubmit or click of a button.
I'm trying to populate a form with information from a database based on a textbox entry. However, when I begin to key in the textbox I receive "undefined" in each textbox throughout the form.
Take a look at my code for any errors? It also appears that my $_GET['jobid'] is not working properly.
I am working on some sort of a program that will load data from a notepad or Excel file and load it into a ComboBox. The notepad file would have names and phone numbers in it. The ComboBox would only show their names in alphabetical order. There would also be a button that when you click it, it would open up Outlook (if you are signed into Outlook) and auto-fill the form with their phone number @ vtext.net (for texting verizon cell phones). The reason behind this is so the notepad or Excel file can be edited to add more users as the company expands.
I am working on a simple tool for my office.We have a very huge database with 5000 tables. All the tables, Columns and their attributes are stored in to excel sheet.
Tool I am designing is for mapping between front end and back end values. Now I will use an image (front end screen of our application) , when user clicks it, I need the HTML to access the excel sheet and display the back end field,the name of tables it can be found in and other data related to that field
Simply,I want to pull data from excel and display them differently for each different click. I want to pass the parameter on click and filter a column in excel with it and display the entire set of sheet with this criteria. Is this possible? or am I expecting too much
I'm about to embark on developing a class which, given a field name and server-side script, will "auto-complete" or "suggest" entries already entered in the database.
I am trying for a javascript code that would ask for the excel file location when run, fetch data from two columns till eof in an excel file (MS Excel 2010), append it to an existing text file and upload the plain text file to an ftp location.
The ftp username, password and location needs to be hard coded in the script.
Visit [url]. I want to to save 32 stations grid in exactly the same format or better yet be able to somehow copy it in excel w/out going into the source and manually editing it. How is this possible?
Wantto import data from excel to SQL server from a web page, but wonder whether it is possible to do it without uploading the excel file from client's machine to server first.
I am trying for a javascript code that would ask for the excel file location when run, fetch data from two columns till eof in an excel file (MS Excel 2010), append it to an existing text file and upload the plain text file to an ftp location.
The ftp username, password and location needs to be hard coded in the script.
I would like to use jQuery to prepopulate a form - ie make a call to a php program to get data from a database and pre-populatea form with appropriate data for the user. Can anyone point me in the right direction for some examples on the simplest way to do this?
i'm loading an external web page (i.e. google.com, espn.com) into an IFRAME on top of a web application we have running in IE running on a kiosk. the kiosk is only a touch screen and has no hardware keyboard.
i'm looking to create a software keyboard that can be requested by a click on our web application (a web page for all intents and purposes). the windows accessibility keyboard would be ok, but when opened from the browser you get the 'confirm opening an exe' dialog, which ain't cool.
so next i was hoping make an html/flash keyboard which would talk to the forms within the IFRAME via a javascript layer. however i later found that javascript is not permitted to access the contents of a document within an IFRAME loaded from an external web site. so there is no way for javascript to directly modify the text values of the form elements.
so now i'm stuck....i'm limited to solutions above the IFRAME level...is there a way to programmatically mimic a keypress and send it to the browser from within the browser? any other ideas?
I have come in need of assistance in guiding me in the right direction. My intentions are to create a web-based page where one can select from a few drop down menu's, and enter a few select pieces of information. This information would then be logged for later purposes, when the user chooses to retrieve this information (during the initial usage, no long term storage) in the format of a report.
I've done a fair amount of PHP development, but am new to Jquery. What I'd like to do is develop a tablet web app that uses custom image buttons for numeric-only data entry to populate form text boxes. Basically, when an image button (0 - 9) is tapped by the user, then the text box having the focus gets that corresponding digit added. There will also be a "back" button to erase, and a "send" button to process the form. It looks like this should be possible to do using Jquery or Jquery UI, but again I'm a newbie with Jquery and am not sure how to proceed.