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Request for quotes/rates

Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2003 11:03 am
by nielsene
I have some boring/cleanup type work I'm considering contracting out, and would like to get some quotes from people here on what type of figures I'd be looking at paying.

Project 1:
I have an application with ~12kLoC, written for PHP versions < 4.2. Using HTTP_POST/SESSION_VARS. I'ld like to update it to _POST/_SESSION as appropriate. As well as remove the global $HTTP_*_VARS from all the functions that have them as its un_needed with the superglobals. (also converting session_register to $_SESSION assignments.) register_globals is off, so the conversion shouldn't have any hiccups.

The source ranges from spaghetti code to well-crafted code. I suspect 99% of the work can be done with simple find/replace grep/sed/awk type work.

Project 2:
XHTML testing: I'm migrating the application from HTML 4 to XHTML 1 strict. Three of four portions are validating correctly. I haven't even begun to conver the fourth. There are about 15-20 unique web-pages. I use POST so its non-trivial to submit the pages to the w3c's validator. You'ld either have to do some CURL work to script the POST submissions in some fashion or view/source->save, submit local copy, or come up with some other method. If you take the CURL route and develop a script that I could re-use (either OSS or ownership assigned to me) I'ld be willing to pay a higher rate that for the "grunge" method.

Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2003 12:02 pm
by pootergeist
XHTML strict and forms :O yikes

you may note: name is not a valid property of form elements such as <input> and <select>.
now try getting php to process without using a single named element - nope you cannot use id="some_name" as php will not recognize that.

Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2003 12:30 pm
by nielsene
pootergeist wrote:XHTML strict and forms :O yikes

you may note: name is not a valid property of form elements such as <input> and <select>.
now try getting php to process without using a single named element - nope you cannot use id="some_name" as php will not recognize that.
Actually that is incorrect.
name has been deprecated in 1.0 in some elements, but not in input/select as you state. It has been deprecated in the form container element.

I have pages with forms that validate in XHTML 1.0 Strict and are handled and generated by PHP.

Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2003 1:18 pm
by pootergeist
ahh, ok - I'd have thought as much really. Figure I shouldn't trust silly people chatting on msn and should check facts before posting them. oops