[CS-FSLUG] help with web based spreadsheet

[Ron Thompson]

On Saturday 26 April 2008 06:54, David McGlone wrote:
> On Friday 25 April 2008 9:18:02 am Ron Thompson wrote:
> > On Friday 25 April 2008 00:28, Davo Smith wrote:
> > > On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 6:14 AM, Ron Thompson <ron.t at xplornet.com> 
wrote:
> > > > putting on a simulated emergency exercise / contest.  Many radio
> > > > clubs will set up stations away from home, off the power grid, with
> > > > temporary antennae and accommodations (tent's, RV's, and the like). 
> > > > In preparation for this we would like to coordinate our gear and
> > > > manpower on our own online spreadsheet, and I'm looking for some help
> > > > to do that.
> > > >
> > > >    What I have is my web hosting package through Tim's company, which
> > > > is where I'd like to put the spreadsheet.   Club members should have
> > > > access to it to make changes, and while I don't mind if its open for
> > > > anyone to view, I would like to password protect it to restrict
> > > > changes to club members.
> > > >
> > > >     How difficult would this be to do?
> > > >
> > > >     Thanks,
> > > >
> > > >                    Ron T.
> > >
> > > http://docs.google.com ?
> > > http://sheet.zoho.com ?
> > >
> > > You could probably embed them in an iframe if you really didn't want
> > > to just put a link.
> > >
> > > Davo
> >
> >   I'm very out of touch and not familiar with iframes.  As it sounds
> > easier to do and should be suitable I'll look into Google Spreadsheets as
> > Jon had suggested.  When I have a moment though I will look into what an
> > iframe is and how to use it.
>
> an iframe is an inline frame. It's just like a frame, but can embed another
> html doc into the main document. Some sites use iframes to embed
> advertisements into an html doc or php doc, so on and so forth.
>
> If I were setting up such a page that you are trying to do, I would use php
> and mysql and have the club member input a username and password in order
> to access the content in the database and be able to make changes.
>
> David M.

    My skill level isn't up this at this time, but I will look into it and see 
if I could learn enough to manage it.  Once learnt it may prove very useful 
for future projects.

    Thanks for help.

            Ron T.

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Ron Thompson, |^|
Yellowknife, NT, Canada
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