I am in need of an expert PHP programmer to help me complete a website auction marketplace similar to that seen on:
marketplace.sitepoint.com
websitebroker.com
buysellwebsite.com
buymeprivate.com
bizmp.com
Much of the visual design and code for this site have already been built out, including the listing pages, html and css, user registration system and many of the form pages. The user registration , private messages, and user management system uses a MyBB forum back-end with custom hooks. The rest of the site I’ve been developing with Zend Framework (its not using an MVC pattern, its just leveraging the various components in a flat class architecture)
The scope of work for this project is to include the following major objectives:
Completing the auction and bidding system where the user can post their website for sale and other users can then make bids on it. Support for buy-it-now and incremental bids (like ebay).
Tying together or merging the session data between MyBB which controls the user details pages and the Zend Framework pages which display the sites for sale and site details pages.
Tying together several components of the the MyBB forum backend into the Zend Frameowrk based pages, such as comments, usernames/avatars and private messages.
Creating modules on the user account page for current buying, selling and watchlist activity.
Creating a saved search component which emails users when websites matching their saved criteria are added to the site.
The ideal candidate for this position should either be a native english speaker or else have fluent english communication skills so that we can discuss the requirements together and not have problems in understanding eachother. The ideal candidate will also have at least 3+ years in developing object oriented PHP applications, have solid understanding of Javascript/AJAX, CSS, XHTML and in the perfect situation would have experience developing applications using Zend Framework and extending MyBB forum platform.
Ideal candidate can be available for phone conversations/IM chat between the hours of 6pm and 10pm CST Monday-Friday and/or 9am-10pm CST Sat/Sun
In addition to providing a link to your portfolio of past work, I would like for you to send me 2 code samples of your work to be considered for this project so I can judge your ability to do this project in a clean and organized manner.
I am putting forth a budget range of between $100 and $500 dollars for this work. There is likely to be more work where this comes from if we develop a good working relationship.