
A non-profit group, based in New Hampshire, wanted to create a site that helped people find local farms. A large group of volunteers would gather information on local farms and enter the data into a GoogleDocs shared spreadsheet. This data needed to be integrated with a website. The non-profit created designs for the search page, search engine results page, and farm display page.
My role as the sole web developer was to write the server-side PHP scripts for the site’s search engine and static pages. Using PHP, I created a system to transfer the spreadsheet data into an XML format which could then be uploaded to MySQL database table. I developed an XHTML site using a PHP framework. The complex search and farm display pages were implemented in PHP. A search engine was written in PHP to search for data by keyword, category, and zip code in the MySQL database.