Database Website?

I have designed many html website over the past years, but I have now been asked to do something a bit different, and I’m not sure whether I can do it! Some help pointing me in the right direction would be most useful!

I have a friend that has an excel spreadsheet of 1000’s of products. Each product has a ‘title’, ‘description’, ‘dimensions’, ‘references’ etc…. They would like to create a website from this excel spreadsheet, which in the future will have additional products added? Each ‘record’ in the spreadsheet needs to be webpage.

This must be possible, but I’m not sure how to go about it?

Thanks

John

 

You need a PHP/MySQL based website(or any other scripting language and database). In the administration back end, there must be facilities to export /import data from excell sheets in addition to the normal add/mod/del options.

This need not be a difficult for a PHP/MySQL programmer, but definitely it is not a web design work. You will need intermediate level PHP and MySQL skills. You may do the design yourself and get a freelancer for the programming work.

 

You can also do it more easily thru XML. If you are familiar to html this one should be a breeze

 

it can be done with any serverside scripting, doesnt have to be the "php/mysql" option (thankfully) or it can be done with XML