RE: FN-FORUM: Spreadsheets and images

date posted 23rd January 2004 12:16

Mike:
> As part of a CMS solution, could an XLS file be used for bulk upload of
> text and images, does that make sense?

It *could* be used, but it doesn't make sense. Why not just upload a zip
file?

The plan is the system is to be used by quite 'non web savvy' users and
excel seems a simple solution for bulk uploading.... maybe not

> The databse would import the xls as CSV but it is poss to have the images
> attached to the file, put them in a sperate folder and the reference them
> from the db?

Which language you using? It's kinda do-able with Java, and you could
probably do it with PHP by fiddling about with the COM stuff...

Language not defined yet, ASP, .net or PHP, I'm not worried and is prob down
to the selected programmer, I'm at Business Plan / Spec stage with lots of
variables to be defined, the important bit is the ability to bulk upload
content with the possibility of 20 images per record

Looks like this may present a problem...

Thanks Nick

Mike




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