Merge data into .html page before publishing to server?

[Mr. Analogy]

Hi,


Lets say you've got a simple table of product info:
Name, description, price, screenshotname, etc.


I'd like to be able to merge that into a web page.


So, I could have one template and perhaps 20 products in my table.


I don't want to mess with a SERVER-SIDE database. The cost savings for

such a small # of products doesn't justify that extra complexity. I
don't want to maintain a database, I just want to have a simple csv
file of product info.


Is there any way to do a simple substitution-type merge?
I.e., FP currently supports substituting it's own "variables" and ones
you create (via Insert-web component-INcluded content-substitution).

clayt
a t
bungalowsoftware dot com

 

[Chris Leeds, MVP-FrontPage]

I believe anything like this would require some server side programming.
does it have to be a csv rather than a simple html table?
if it can be a simple html table you can use a server side include to inject
it's contents into the page.

HTH

--
Chris Leeds,
Microsoft MVP-FrontPage

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[Chris Garner]

I'd like to be able to merge that into a web page.


So, I could have one template and perhaps 20 products in my table.

I don't know whether this is what you mean:
http://www.pettistree.suffolk.gov.uk/whatson.html

The web page is created by a FoxPro program from my database, using the
FoxPro <TextMerge> command.

Chris