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Variables that contains hundreds of words

Posted: Tue Feb 11, 2020 7:59 pm
by GoinNuts
Hi there, I use this software to design my EBay pages. I have hundreds of listings and every one of these have a list of several hundred words that change often. You can imagine the amount of time to update hundreds of listings...

I would love to be able to have a text file on my server that I can update and have all my listings on EBay automatically update when a page is viewed. Anyone have any ideas on how this could be done? No scripts. PHP etc. since EBay forbids that.

I also thought if I could design a variable that could contain all those words at least I would only have to make one change to the variable then upload all the listings, this would at least save me a little time. If anyone knows how or even if this could be done...

Just a thought, any way to have this list of words in a .css file? This would work perfectly if possible.

I would be eternally grateful to anyone that could help me.

Lee

Re: Variables that contains hundreds of words

Posted: Tue Feb 11, 2020 9:16 pm
by Pablo
Reading a file from the server requires either PHP or JavaScript.

But if all you need is a listing then you may be able to use one of these extensions
http://www.wysiwygwebbuilder.com/bootstraptable.html
http://www.wysiwygwebbuilder.com/datatables.html
http://www.wysiwygwebbuilder.com/dataviewer.html
http://www.wysiwygwebbuilder.com/respon ... table.html

These extensions can read a CVS file from your local disk and embed it in your website.

Re: Variables that contains hundreds of words

Posted: Wed Feb 12, 2020 3:12 am
by GoinNuts
Ebay does not allow any script to run, no PHP nothing. So all those options will not work. I actually bought the datatables one.

I found a working solution with the css files.

Re: Variables that contains hundreds of words

Posted: Wed Feb 12, 2020 7:34 am
by Pablo
If you use a local CSV file then PHP is not required.