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Provide a plan in writing for creating a site in PHP/MySQL

Status: Closed
Prêmio: $30
Inscrições Recebidas: 6
Vencedor: sonaht

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Síntese do concurso

The objective of this contest is to receive ideas that can lead to a plan to build a website in PHP/MySQL. You are to write at least one A4 page and describe how you would go about in creating the site (in technical terms, focus on the database challenges, not the design of the site). Although I offer 30 dollars to the winners (plural), it shouldn't take you more than an hours work and it could lead to future collaboration between us (not to mention that this should be fun to write).

I want to know if open source can be used for this kind of project (Wordpress, MediaWiki?)—and if so, to what extent, and in which areas—and I’d like to know the amount of hours it would normally take to program these features.

The nature of the website is to have users contributing with various text materials which, in turn, can be sorted out by different categories, publishing date, etc. You will find a more detailer description below.

One winner is guaranteed, but if I’ll receive several good suggestions that I find fulfilling, I’ll award several winners. Maybe two, three winners, or even more. And, when I start working on the site, some of you might be contracted to help build the site. Don’t hesitate to ask for clarification (I’m well aware that I’m not being very clear on this!) After you upload your document (doc, Pages or PDF), I might ask you for clarification; or, if you are one of those who are awarded, I might have a couple of follow-up questions. I hope this is ok.

Thanks and happy writing!

Features.

User rights:

* publish text material (minimum X words, maximum Y words).
* tag the contribution by different categories that later can be searched on and sorted out.
* the contribution can be edited by the user for a certain amount of time.
* user statistics: amount of contributions, the latest contribution, etc.
* log in and access to forum (maybe Disqus?);

The text material:

* Published text-material (”contribution”) can be accepted in two ways: 1) the moderator promotes it; 2) the contribution is put to a vote where other users rate it between 1-5. A rate of at least 3 will promote it to the site (X amount of votes will be needed).
Important detail: a pseudo-random contribution will be picked from various arrays that belong to different categories and will be shown on the main page for X amount of seconds, after which a new random contribution will be shown.
— Only a selected part of the contribution will be shown on the main page, a specific part of the text that the uploader (the user) has selected to be shown, if the contribution is selected to be shown on the main page.
— When the visitor clicks on the random contribution, he is taken to the page that belongs to that specific contribution.

Ads:

* Ads will be located to the right of the page where contributions are found (that is, not on the main page). Depending on the text content of the text contribution, along with the tags that help categorize the contribution, the ads are meant to match them. Sort of like google ads. Please let me know the best way to do this. I’m interested in advertisement with Amazon, ebay, alibris, etc.

Social communities:

* Contributions will be able to be shared on Facebook and other communities. I’m guessing this is a discipline of its own, but I’d like to know how this can be implemented.

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“I asked for a written plan on building a website and sonaht provided. I hope we\'ll work on future projects.”

Sebastianonline, Sweden.

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sonaht
- 9 anos atrás
Hello, I am interested in writting about this. A couple of questions: a) is the php/mysql combination a strict requiremnt? b) shall I explain the process from the point of view of a developer (what I need from the client) or shall I assume both roles in order to get a more complete text? c) shall I touch the design (frontend) at all ?
- 9 anos atrás
1. Proprietário do Concurso
  - 9 anos atrás
  Yes, the php/mysql is a requirement because those are the languages that will be used in building the site. You ought to describe the process from the POV of the developer, as in what needs to be done and how, in order to accomplish the features that were described. Ask yourself, if you were to create a website with those features, how would you go about in doing it? You can give a small description of the frontend. Remember that the big challenge is to have users upload a text material, after which it goes to rating by other users; and if it passes, it's uploaded to a database (stored in an array that belongs to a specific category depending on the tags); and this information is accessed either if the user searches for it, or if it's randomly picked and displayed on the front page. :)
  - 9 anos atrás
2. sonaht
  - 9 anos atrás
  Thank you. More info to work on. The process is fairly straight forward as far as the db is concerned. I will provide the document. Thank you for your time
  - 9 anos atrás
RAJCDAC
- 9 anos atrás
Are you looking for some kind of proposal
- 9 anos atrás
1. Proprietário do Concurso
  - 9 anos atrás
  I do.
  - 9 anos atrás
stevenswart
- 9 anos atrás
Ok, do I at least get a like? Or even an actual recommendation might even be reciprocal! ;-)
- 9 anos atrás
1. Proprietário do Concurso
  - 9 anos atrás
  Steven, your bid was off subject and so I had to reject it. I checked your essay and although it might be of some interest to those who care to learn more about making a career as a freelancer on Freelancer.com, the essay doesn't answer any of my questions.
  - 9 anos atrás
2. stevenswart
  - 9 anos atrás
  I can answer any question you might have about technology, given enough time. $15 USD buys about a quarter of an hour at my published rate.
  - 9 anos atrás