The most likely starting point would be node_import:

http://www.drupal.org/project/node_import

It will not handle Excel files natively however--you will need to have them available as CSV files.

If that is not possible for what ever reason, you may look into a tool which converts between the formats (there are a few ways to do this in the unix world, including one direct xls2csv program, although I do not know what package it is a part of).

Luke

On Thu, 30 Jul 2009, Gustavo Cabral wrote:

Hi!

I would like implement a functionality in a web site for able to upload an excel file, with a determined format, and then, I want to generate nodes with this information. Exists a module or a medium to do that? or how can i insert data into drupal database from an excel file?

thanks a lot

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The node import advice you received so far is great.

Another potential solutions is the combination of Table Wizard and Migrate modules

http://drupal.org/project/tw http://drupal.org/project/migrate

These were recently discussed on the Civic Actions blog:

http://civicactions.com/blog/2009/jul/25/migrating_your_website_drupal

There's also a whole discussion on the topic comparing options at http://groups.drupal.org/node/21338

And a group for discussing them at http://groups.drupal.org/content-migration-import-and-export

There are tons of resources for this topic, but it's still relatively hard to do the work itself.

Regards, Greg

On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 5:05 PM, Gustavo Cabralgmcabral@gmail.com wrote:

Hi!

I would like implement a functionality in a web site for able to upload an excel file, with a determined format, and then, I want to generate nodes with this information. Exists a module or a medium to do that? or how can i insert data into drupal database from an excel file?

thanks a lot

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