Viewing excel spreadsheets with only javascript

[pikahyper]

ok i've been trying to figure this out for three weeks now, basically i am
developing a playstation portable portal website and i do not have a web server
that supports databases so i am trying to link to an excel spreadsheet that has
around 30 sheets, total file size is around 4Megs, i need to embed the
spreadsheet including the tabs into my html page using only javascript, so far
the playstation portable has subpar support for dhtml and java hence the need
for just html and javascript.

I have found many sources for information but all of them include the use of
asp, php, or vb. i'm sure an activex applet can embed the xls file but i have
not been able to find any reference to the classid on microsofts website.

I do not need the ability to update or save or any of the tools in the psp
browser I just need to see any up to date xls data sitting in the excel file on
the server.

on a side note to that does anyone know if its possible to use an xls file for
server side user verification for a log-on page for the psp portal i am working
on? if not i'll have to use flash.

any help with this would be much appreciated i only have about a week and a
half to finish this project so any source code or tutorials would be much
appreciated either here in the forum or emailed to me at
[email]pikahyper80@hotmail.com[/email]. thanks for viewing

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"pikahyper" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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> ok i've been trying to figure this out for three weeks now, basically i am
> developing a playstation portable portal website and i do not have a web
> server
> that supports databases so i am trying to link to an excel spreadsheet
> that has
> around 30 sheets, total file size is around 4Megs, i need to embed the
> spreadsheet including the tabs into my html page using only javascript, so
> far
> the playstation portable has subpar support for dhtml and java hence the
> need
> for just html and javascript.
>
> I have found many sources for information but all of them include the use
> of
> asp, php, or vb. i'm sure an activex applet can embed the xls file but i
> have
> not been able to find any reference to the classid on microsofts website.
>
> I do not need the ability to update or save or any of the tools in the psp
> browser I just need to see any up to date xls data sitting in the excel
> file on
> the server.
>
> on a side note to that does anyone know if its possible to use an xls file
> for
> server side user verification for a log-on page for the psp portal i am
> working
> on? if not i'll have to use flash.
>
> any help with this would be much appreciated i only have about a week and
> a
> half to finish this project so any source code or tutorials would be much
> appreciated either here in the forum or emailed to me at
> [email]pikahyper80@hotmail.com[/email]. thanks for viewing
>

[pikahyper]

why would it not support it? would i need to use odbc or jdbc to display it in
a browser?

ok what about locally on my computer, how can i display the same stuff from on
my pc? i'm using windows xp home and haven't been able to get any databases
working with odbc or jdbc, i just need to be able show the contents in a psp
emulator on my pc or load it directly on the psp from the memory stick itself
without a pc and without any extra applications/plugins or php/asp. eventually
i'll get odbc/jdbc working on this pc and i will switch the excel file to a
mysql database.