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Apr 11.2006

I have a little bit different challenge to solve. ?

I have a customer who is a car dealer. He has a database that can only export data to comma-delimited text files. He wants to minimise data-entry repetition by using the data from those files to populate web pages with this data about the cars he has for sale. Max is about 30 vehicles, so a database on the server side is not practical for this.

Each car can be a seperate file (by Stock #), or I can have him export the ENTIRE list of cars to one text file. 3 photos will accompany each vehicle. He wishes to do the updates to the website himself, which is reasonable, but he is NOT tech savvy, so I have to automate this as much as possible.

Each vehicle would have it’s own page on the site, and a list of all vehicles on the main page to link to each vehicle page…

I’m a bit rusty on this kind of thing, so I was hoping for some suggestions on how to approach this ?

Thanks in advance…
Fred

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@hyperliskApr 11.2006 — You could create one page, and pass in values through the URL. ie
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</i>cars.html?carID=1&amp;img1=images/image1.jpg&amp;img2=images/image2.jpg&amp;img3=images/image3.jpg

Then just get the variables out of the URL and place the proper contents in a DIV or any other element.
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@A1ien51Apr 11.2006 — Look into Ajax XMLHttpRequest Object with an text file.

You can use the responseText and do a split(",") to get the data in an array and handle it that way.

Eric
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@phpnoviceApr 11.2006 — The only consideration will be if this comma-delimited data also contains commas within quoted text. If so, it would be better to use PHP on the server-side to parse the data (because PHP understands the CSV format) and hand it off to JavaScript pre-parsed. Of course, to use the XMLHttpRequest object, you're going to need some server-side document anyway.
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