[Pro] Web Developer / Programmer Wanted

Hi Everyone,

I currently use Freeway Pro but am now wanting to build a website that has a search function.

I don’t mean a search box like the one you would build with atomz or google adsense.

What I want is for the user to, for example, go through the process of (1) ‘select required region’, (2) ‘select required product’, and then have the appropriate results come up on the webpage.

I contacted Softpress Support and they suggested that I would need a Web Developer / Programmer to write the PHP / MySQL code and that I should post something up here and try to find something who might like to do this little job for me.

Please contact me if you have any questions regarding the finer details.

Thanks heaps!
Amanda


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Hi Amanda

Can you be a bit more specific about what you want to happen - you mention ‘select required region’ and ‘select required product’ are these part of the same process?

Is the ultimate outcome to choose from area lists and product lists to narrow down the selection to one product and then display info about that product?

If so what sort of info do you want to display, how many areas, how many products.

David


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Hi David,

Yes you have got it right. The ultimate outcome will be to narrow down the selection of products based on the area and category they choose.

The website is to be a directory site of ball-related products and services (prom- related) for teenagers in New Zealand. (The end of year prom/dance/formal/ball that senior high school students have).

There are 16 main areas in New Zealand so first they will choose their location (1 of 16 options) and then they will choose what they are interested in finding such as ball gowns, limousine hire, hairdressers, etc. I have 18 options in this category but I imagine this figure might grow to include a couple more in the future.

Hope this is easy enough to understand.

Kind Regards
Amanda


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How often will this information change? Are there a lot of options in
each of the 18-20 sub-categories? Once you drill down to the final
level, how much information will be displayed?

My initial thought is that all of this could be a single page with a
JavaScript to hide most of it and reveal only the part you want to
show based on the choices.

I built something meant to mimic the Mac Finder in Columns view quite
a while back, you might want to look at that and see if it gives you
any ideas. You could lay it all out on a single page in Freeway
(inline layout, so things can collapse) and then the script would just
hide things and reveal them.

http://scripty.walterdavisstudio.com/tree.html

When this test page loads, it shows the complete set of options
expanded. When you click on the gray bar, it hides everything and
shows the behavior. Your page would skip that first part, and would
load with everything hidden.

Walter

On Jan 21, 2010, at 2:35 PM, Amanda Stretton wrote:

Hi David,

Yes you have got it right. The ultimate outcome will be to narrow
down the selection of products based on the area and category they
choose.

The website is to be a directory site of ball-related products and
services (prom- related) for teenagers in New Zealand. (The end of
year prom/dance/formal/ball that senior high school students have).

There are 16 main areas in New Zealand so first they will choose
their location (1 of 16 options) and then they will choose what they
are interested in finding such as ball gowns, limousine hire,
hairdressers, etc. I have 18 options in this category but I imagine
this figure might grow to include a couple more in the future.

Hope this is easy enough to understand.

Kind Regards
Amanda


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This sounds like a dynamic driven website.
For Expression Engine I’d think it would be like this (just a quick thought)

16 main areas = 16 weblogs aka channels.
18 options = 18 categories that belong to these weblogs. In the back-end each firm that offer services is an entree, connected to one categorie.

In a working site:
One chooses an area, so categories that do have entrees (firms that are active in that area) appear.

If one builds a form that collects these data, the visitor can now choose the services he/she is interested in and sends this form to the organisation, and you’re done.


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Amanda here is a quick example showing how this could show images/info and links to other pages http://www.deltadzine.net/tree/index.html

Select: Option one>Sub Option one and then rollover Product 1, 2 and 3 (these are also links to other pages)

My only problem with it is that I can select more than 1 option when I come back up the tree. Maybe Walter will tell me where i went wrong with that.

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You’re getting an error because you don’t have any objects on the page
with the ID of message. Either make one, or remove the line where a
click on the last option sets #message to the innerHTML value of the
product name.

Walter

On Jan 21, 2010, at 5:26 PM, DeltaDave wrote:

My only problem with it is that I can select more than 1 option when
I come back up the tree. Maybe Walter will tell me where i went
wrong with that.


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Thanks Walter - I took it off so that it didn’t distract from the show/hide layer.

Great bit of JavaScript - I am sure that I will be able to use this somewhere. Thanks for sharing.

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On 21 Jan 2010, 7:02 pm, waltd wrote:

How often will this information change? Are there a lot of options

Quite amazing, Walter, chapeau! Everything in one flat page. Indeed a good alternative to a dynamic driven site.


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The information on each page might change frequently depending on advertisers. I imagined that the products and services would be displayed on a freeway page that wouldn’t interfere with any code necessary to make the search function.

The 16 location options probably won’t ever change and the 18 product category options may or may not grow to include a couple more in the future.

The sort of thing I am looking for can be seen on: (up the top in the middle of the page is a search feature).

www.nzweddingdirectory.co.nz

Ignore the first category of ‘find’. What I want are: ‘category’ & ‘location’ & ‘search’.

I don’t really like the idea of setting it out as suggested above (http://www.deltadzine.net/tree/index.html) because it will take up too much room. I would need to have 16 different buttons / categories each linking to 18 sub-categories.

If I build it like the example on www.nzweddingdirectory.co.nz then it would be much tidier and not take up as much room. Plus, I already have a CSS menu on the page for other page options.

Does anyone know how to build a search function like the one on the nzweddingdirectory.co.nz site?

Thanks!
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At 20:32 -0500 22/1/10, Amanda Stretton wrote:

The information on each page might change frequently depending on
advertisers. I imagined that the products and services would be
displayed on a freeway page that wouldn’t interfere with any code
necessary to make the search function.
The 16 location options probably won’t ever change and the 18
product category options may or may not grow to include a couple
more in the future.
The sort of thing I am looking for can be seen on: (up the top in
the middle of the page is a search feature).
www.nzweddingdirectory.co.nz
Ignore the first category of ‘find’. What I want are: ‘category’ &
‘location’ & ‘search’.
If I build it like the example on www.nzweddingdirectory.co.nz then
it would be much tidier and not take up as much room. Plus, I
already have a CSS menu on the page for other page options.

Does anyone know how to build a search function like the one on the
nzweddingdirectory.co.nz site?

The nzweddingdirectory site uses plain ‘select’ pop-ups. It’s not
difficult to create such a pop-up from the contents of a field in a
database and embed it in a FW page. When the selections are made and
the search submitted, a database lookup will return the information
you need. This could be a site-internal link to a FW designed page
for the appropriate product. Does this sound like the sort of thing
you want? I have done that sort of thing, but there’s nothing current
‘out there’.

David


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