从Excel工作表进行SQL查询或PHP查询

Question

My suppliers in South Africa do not use live xmls for their stock lists.

Each of our suppliers stock lists ( excel pricelists ) have very different layouts. The only way I currently do updates is by copying the code and the price into a new excel csv sheet and import. Then the product codes that it can't pickup will automatically be put in the “products” category with just the code and the price. The rest I do manually. Adding the short description, product name and correct category.

Is there anyway to make this more automated. We currently have over 15 different pricelists and in excess of 30k products.

I want it to automatically fetch the products image from google based on the products name. Automatically add it to the correct category? I assume I would have to set conditions such as code starting with MO- go to computers///peripherals///mouses. Or for it to ask me to set conditions to look for in product code or short descriptions then it will do the rest?

I also want that when a product is missing from the pricelists it gets hidden.

Is this possible?

Answer 1

Well, PHP has all the tools you need:

1. Database Interface
2. Getting the contents of a web page (Hopefully you could get the image by some method other than Google search, because that would be unreliable: how would you know you got the right result? But there are lots of examples of people using PHP to search Google--just search the internet).
3. Writing an Excel file .

Or in Perl, my preferred tool: DBI , LWP::Simple , and Spreadsheet::WriteExcel .

I would not try doing this with VBA in Excel if you have other options. In my experience, that leads to repeatedly hitting one's head against the wall. It probably is possible to do it that way, as well, though.