Do you think I can do this?

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xintruder
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Do you think I can do this?

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Hello,
I am wondering if I can do the following project or not, in your opinion.

Project summarized:
Time needed to submit: 10 weeks
Content:
-A five page website for selling ten products.
-Home page: simple stuff
-purchasing page: showing the ten products with their prices (obtained from a data base)
-a discount page: with three of the products offered for discount as a package
-user input page such as name and address
-summary of order page
once an order has been made, it is removed from availability from purchasing page

My and PHP:
No experience at all. there are no exams, just submitting this site and a report.

Do you guys think I can do it? Is it easy to code in your opinions?
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Benjamin
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Re: Do you think I can do this?

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Not without a lot of patience and a few good PHP/MySQL books. You'll also need an admin panel to add/remove/edit/delete products, customers, sale items, display recent orders etc.

It's not as simple as you think.
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Re: Do you think I can do this?

Post by alex.barylski »

If I flapped my arms hard enough and I had wings, would I fly? What about to the moon? :lol:

I have no idea what your experience level is or the *exact* requirements of your project is.

You could probably find some pre-made solutions, hack them togather and be done in a weekend, but as features creep in, COTS begins to fall apart and you spend more time removing functionality than you do adding it.

Start from scratch and you have way more work ahead of you and the more features a customer demands, the harder your code is going to become to work with. Existing designs usually have the benefit of many users all making the code a "little" more flexible.

I'd spend a week figuring out the design, getting the requirements as accurate as possible (following KISS you don't need a manual just point form) and spend another few days finding similar solutions or multiple products which you could tie togather to solve a problem.

WordPress and a simple shopping cart (which there are plenty of -- not everything is osCommerce/Magento)
My and PHP:
No experience at all. there are no exams, just submitting this site and a report.
What does this mean? You have no PHP experience? Or the job doesn't require PHP experience?

If you have no PHP experience? Good luck, you'd need at least a few weeks to learn enough PHP to write anything more than a simple hangman game. You need even more experience IMHO before you can go about using existing software and actually integrating third party systems.

Cheers,
Alex
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Do you guys think I can do it?
No.
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Bill H wrote:
Do you guys think I can do it?
No.
No, yes and no. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schr%C3%B6dinger%27s_cat )
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