I have my products listed in an Excel file (and have also exported to a comma-delimited text file).

Rather than have to create a separate page for each product, I thought it would be better to create one product page layout and then depending on which product is clicked on from the list of links, the site displays the respective .jpeg and description text accordingly.

Can anyone please advise on or provide some javascript or html coding that will enable me to read the Excel file or the text file and place the relevant items into my product page?

Many thanks,

Jason

You cannot use HTML coding - you will need to use a server side language to read the file - usually .NET, ASP, or PHP.

If you are on a *NIX server, you might check into PHP. On Windows, check into .NET or ASP

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Corey
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Hi,

Thanks for the advise there. How do I go about getting ASP or PHP languages? Do they cost much? Are there any tools (preferably freeware or shareware) that will enable me to set this up? Or is there absolutely no way I can do it in JavaScript?

Thanks,

Jason

For ASP, check out ASP 101 or ASP tutorial.

I also found Reading and writing an excel file using Javascript, but I am not familiar at all with JavaScript.

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Corey
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PHP is free; just go to www.php.net. Any HTML editor will let you use PHP on your site.

FWIW, Microsoft just announced that IronPython will be complimenting ASP.NET in the next release of Visual Studio, meaning you can learn IronPython and get the same functionality as ASP.NET. This just means you have the option of which language to use to get the same functionality.

You can also look at Java Server Pages if you have an interest in using Java.

The deal with Javascript is that it's mostly a client-side language. You can do some server-side scripting with it but it really wasn't designed for it. What this means is that anything that requires talking to the server, e.g. database calls, is really better handled by using something other than Javascript.

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