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Sorting list or db numericly and displaying it in table in browser-best way to do it?
Old 01-15-2007, 11:37 AM Sorting list or db numericly and displaying it in table in browser-best way to do it?
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I run my website http://www.andrew-winchester.com to promote my motor racing

On the right hand side of the index I have a top 10 points standings table which I update after every race. I also have a full list of points in my results section.
At the moment I use an excel spreadsheet to calculate points and order them and then I have to change the table information by hand, which is time consuming and I feel unnessacery.
I have tried using the import tabular date option in Dreamweaver and importing a .txt I exported from Excel but it loads in a default table which I then have to reformat to my CSS style and then change the background colour on every 2nd line to match my design.

So what I'm looking for is a hassle free way of updating both the top 10 standings and full standings. Where I can simple type into a database or update a file with the points and my website will update itself keeping the correct table and text styles, colours and sizes.

I dont know the best way to do this or there may be multiple ways to achieve this. It would be worth mentioning I am not very good at any kind of coding and only have a moderate knowledge of html and very very basic knowledge of php.
Any help is greatly appreciated
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Old 01-16-2007, 03:29 AM Re: Sorting list or db numericly and displaying it in table in browser-best way to do
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I dont know the best way to do this or there may be multiple ways to achieve this. It would be worth mentioning I am not very good at any kind of coding and only have a moderate knowledge of html and very very basic knowledge of php.
Any help is greatly appreciated

That means you don't want to learn how to deal with PHP/MYSQL or ASPX/SQL Server. So your best bet is to save your Excel file in XML Spreadsheet format and then use an XSLT to translate it to html format. Failing that, save the Excel data as XML and write some javascript.

Or you could take a screen shot of your Excel data and use it as a gif file on your web page. That would be pretty easy to maintain, at least.
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