Using CSV Files

Small site to turn bigger

[dwhitesock]

I have done a website for a brick and mortar store that in the beginning all they wanted to do was have a site that features a bunch of their products but is not eccommerce.

The amount of products were not so many that I did not have to do anything special except just put up the pages.

Now they want to increase, exponentially the amount of products to feature and they are considering putting themselves into a position to go eccommerce.

I have heard about using a regular Excel document to create the general product information to be generated on the appropriate page.

I would really appreciate it if someone could lead me in the right direction on how to do this. Thank you.

[jatar_k]

You will need to use some type of scripting language to do what you want.

Working with a file to drive the content of a site is normally called a flat file. Sometimes also referred to as a flat file database. You could also do the same thing and have much more functionality with an actual database.

In a flat file setup you could use comma delimited values and read the file to produce the product pages or output. once again the same thing could be accomplished with a database.

Do you have any idea what scripting language you might want to use to accomplish this? That would help us give you more specific answers.

>> they want to increase, exponentially the amount of products

This makes me think you may want to look at using a database in this particular scenario.