Comments on: Simple CMS using Google Spreadsheet API

By: Todd Huss

Todd Huss — Sun, 20 May 2012 19:43:02 +0000

Wow, great work Danilo!

By: Danilo Figueiredo

Danilo Figueiredo — Sun, 20 May 2012 17:42:45 +0000

Great post. I just published my portfolio ( http://www.grifo.tv ) built with CoffeeScript, Backbone.js, jQuery Isotope, Paper.js and Google Docs spreadsheet as CMS. It is opensourced on Github ( https://github.com/grifotv/grifotv-portfolio ), feel free to fork it.

By: Ruli

Ruli — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 20:23:38 +0000

I am having the same problem,

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

This is my code

function displayContent(json) { document.getElementById(‘headline’).innerHTML = json.feed.entry[0].gsx$html.$t; }

By: steve

steve — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 16:41:41 +0000

I recommend checking out http://www.freesmartwebtools.com. It allows you to implement a cms simply into basic html with no server-side programming and no database. It is so cool.

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.