Re: PHP and Palm Pilot interaction

Dave G wrote: [...] > But on the other hand, I was wondering if it may be possible to > make use of the simple text editor on the Palm, or perhaps the newer > Excel editors (which I have not yet tried), to create a file of flat > data which could then be uploaded and interpreted by PHP and then > entered into the DB. It seems to me that a simple text file would > probably be easy to upload and read by PHP, but then I'd have to do more > work to get the teachers to conform to layout standards and do more > error checking since the text file allows for a wide range of mistakes > to happen. The Excel file would make it easier for the teachers to see > where to enter data and have less mistakes, but then it might be more > difficult to get the data out of it, through PHP, and into the database. [...] Make a custom sheet in Excel for the teachers. Excel can generate a comma delimited (CSV) file out of a sheet. The you can very easily import that file into your PHP program :8] (there is even a function for it, IIRC). -- Seks, seksić, seksolatki... news:pl.soc.seks.moderowana http://hyperreal.info { iWanToDie } WiNoNa ) ( http://szatanowskie-ladacznice.0-700.pl foReVeR( * ) Poznaj jej zwiewne kształty... http://www.opera.com 007