Forbes Motor Company
http://www.forbesmotorcompany.com/
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Brief
The Forbes Motor Company needed a website to enable them to present and manage all of their stock on line. They required the ability to upload as many images as they wished for each car. They also wanted to be able to mark an item as “Sold” with all sold items remaining somewhere on the site. A link for customers to apply for finance for every vehicle was required.
Implementation
All PHP code for this site was created from scratch using an OOP design. The database used is MySQL. All pages validate as XHTML 1.0 strict.
A PHP upload class takes care of all image uploads, creating 4 versions of the main image uploaded for each car (huge, large, thumbnail and “sold”). Three versions of each image are created for all subsequent images (huge, large and thumbnail).
The stock page features a quick finder toolbar which enables filtering all stock by existing “manufacturer” type. Once selected a further dynamic “model” drop-down field appears (provided there is more than one item in that category).
The “list by” field in the quick finder toolbar is stored as part of the viewer’s sessions data (run from the database rather than PHP sessions) and will be sticky for subsequent visits, providing the visitor’s cookies are not deleted.
A simple flash slideshow is featured on the homepage. This is embedded within the page using jQuery.