On Jul 22, 2007, at 11:26 PM, novnov wrote:
The answer may or many not be very postgres specific but...what are
some
possible routes that I could take to allows users to upload data
from excel
into a postgres via a website? I've never tried anything like this
before.
Are there standard modules that might help with this or will I have to
create from scratch? I am obviously hoping to find something I can
just plug
in. Users would be expected to have the xls ordered properly for
the routine
to work.
It's something that would be pretty easy, given the right web
platform, quite
hard using the wrong one. Using perl, say, it would be less than a
hundred
lines of code. (Take uploaded file, crack xls format to extract data
using one
of the several CPAN excel reader modules, use DBI to insert it into
the database).
Uploading CSV (comma separated values) is likely to be easier in
languages
that don't happen to have support for xls, but CSV can only represent
a small
subset of xls.
If the webserver itself it running on windows then there's all sorts
of games you
can play by remote controlling an instance of Excel, but doing that
tends to
be pretty fragile.
Cheers,
Steve
