Challenge -
http://www.tunisia360.com/ owner had the details of 2500 businesses which were needed to be advertised on the site. It was also required to make the business owners to be able to edit their details and to allow the more businesses to add their details on the site. All these work was needed to be done on the existing website without effecting any part of the website.
The site was in Joomla1.0 and there wasn't any extension available for this purpose.
Solution -
OpenSource
Technologies analyzed the requirments and the existing site and come up with the following steps of actions -
1. Upgrade the Joomla version from 1.0 to 1.5
2. JReviews should be used to put the details of the businesses. It will allow to add more businesses by the site registered users. Also it is going to provide rating and reviews functionality which is very important to promote the businesses.
3. Create a custom script to import the data from the Excel Sheet to JReviews and also to create an account for each business.
The client agreed with the suggestions and the same were implemented and now can be seen at http://www.tunisia360.com/
Technologies used -
Joomla 1.5, JReviews, PHP5, MySQL5
Technologies
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