Portfolio - Frantsia

Title: Frantsia

Technologies: PHP, MySQL, HTML, Javascript

Description:

During the project development the Injoit team has been constantly involved with Wordpress MU customization as the web portal is built based on this open source solution. Wordpress MU has been chosen due to its scalability, advanced user friendly admin interfaces, great SEO capabilites etc. Multi user version has been chosen due to necessity to create various sections and provide a platform for future extension of the functionality for the registered partners.

During the work the below given Wordpress have been used. Some of them have been seriously rewritten to ensure compability with Wordpress multi user version or to extend functionality according to project specifications.

• Wordpress MU (Multi-user) Customization
• Googlemap search integration
• Databasing

Used and modified plugins:

• Great Real Estate
• Polyglot
• Vent

Following plugins have been created by us exclusively for current project:

• AJAX search
• Russian-French dates for Wordpress
• Partners categories editor
• Geographical zones editor
• Show avatars and userpics

Plugins used without modification:

• Most commented
• My category order
• Nautic pages
• Popularity contest
• Post-Plugin library
• Remove Max Width
• Role manager
• Simple tags
• Admin-menus
• Exclude pages from navigation

Most of the coding has been done within the plugins and the template in order to keep the original WP engine as much untouched as possible to make further updates easier.

One of the most challenging and important tasks of the project has been to develop all the interaction with the Google map. Below is not complete list of what we have dealt with while realizing the map search functionality:

• Google map integration with MySQL database of properties via PHP
• AJAX powered search criteria forms
• Google map API (ggevent, gmarker, overlay, icon)
• Javascript DOM
• combined LabeledMarker + Tooltip classes and improved into own class
• Markers generation (ChartAPI from Google)
• mini HTML template in order to decrease Ajax traffic
• sajax framework (modified)
• MSXML module worked around in order to improve IE compatibility

Screenshots:

Main page	Webzine, sponsored category	Partners directory
Agenda	Search on Google map feature	Search on Google map feature