Comments on: Simple CMS using Google Spreadsheet API

By: Scott

Scott — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 16:34:09 +0000

I also tried to use the Spreadsheet helper from Dion and am having the same problem.

By: Scott

Scott — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 16:32:45 +0000

I would love to see a response to jgodsey - I am having the same problem.

By: Michael

Michael — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 18:06:04 +0000

The last line should read:
document.write (””);

By: Michael

Michael — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 18:03:43 +0000

I like this approach and changed to code to be a bit more universal and allow to fill multiple fields taken the corresponding id from the spreadsheet as well.

var cmstoken=”";
function displayContent(json) {
i=0;
while (json.feed.entry[i].gsx$field.$t !=”") {
document.getElementById(json.feed.entry[i].gsx$field.$t).innerHTML = json.feed.entry[i].gsx$content.$t.replace(/\n/g,”");
i++;
}
}
document.write (”");

By: jgodsey

jgodsey — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 17:49:30 +0000

i can’t seem to get this to work.

aside from pasting the code into a page and then changing the URL to match the published spreadsheet. what else do i need to do?

http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=pPhWzPZYf7OX04wmb_emDfw

By: Todd Huss

Todd Huss — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 16:00:40 +0000

Anieto2k, thanks for the Spanish translation!

JR, the reason I don’t like the iframe approach is two fold:

1. Presumably you want more than one field on a page editable and rather than create one spreadsheet per field you want to edit and iframing each one, I prefer to put all the fields in one spreadsheet. If you’re just trying to republish a spreadsheet on your site though, then I agree that the iframe approach is nice!

2. With an iframe you have no control of the styling of the contents whereas with the JSON approach the text displays on your page and therefor inherits your regular CSS styles.

By: meneame.net

meneame.net — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 08:36:11 +0000

Crear un sencillo CMS con Google Spreadsheet….

Una curiosa y sencilla manera de hacer un blog con la ayuda de la hoja de cálculo de Google. El artículo original está en inglés. Hay una traducción en aNieto2k: http://www.anieto2k.com/2007/06/12/google-speadsheet-el-blog-de-los-pobres

By: JR

JR — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 22:11:22 +0000

if you’re just looking to get dynamic content displayed as it appears in the spreadsheet, you might actually be better off just using an iframe with the embedded published URL - this way you get all the formatting too… and no javascript…
Use the PUBLISH tab within the spreadsheet editor - then go to the “more publishing options” link - and select the “HTML to embed in a web page” option to generate the iframe code snippet… then adjust the iframe size to match you page/blog.etc…

You can check the “re-publish automatically” option or publish manually…
have fun!