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).
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