The Brief
Our existing client, Victor Products is a multi-national company selling mining parts and components around the world. They came to us asking if we could build and integrate a system into their existing site, to help their customers find certain mining parts. Additionally the customers are able to fill in a form to request a quote.
What happened next
We developed a bespoke application that had a front end interface for their customers, and a backend management system that allowed our client to manage their products. The front end system is simple, easy to use and does a great job to hide away the complexity of the backend system. Each choice that is made on the part finder has multiple permutations of the next choice that the user can make, which required lots of thought about the logic behind it.
The client also requested that they wanted to upload an Excel spreadsheet which would be processed on the server, to help when they upload new products in bulk. The system will then automatically process the spreadsheet, check for duplicates and insert the information into the database.
Notes from our Technical Director
To develop the application we used the CodeIgniter PHP framework. This allowed us to meet all the project deliverables on time and let us focus on the application logic rather than spending time reinventing the wheel. It was used in conjunction with MySQL for the database. For the front end, we used the Javascript library jQuery for all the animations, AJAX and DOM manipulation.
Final Application Screenshots:
