We are seeking a skilled PHP programmer with experience with Wordpress to help with a custom PHP script to work alongside our Wordpress site.
Our Wordpress site will consist of a product catalog of brands and products. Each brand will have its own page that should be able to display all the products with that brand. The key however is that we need to be able to update the product catalog via FTP, not Wordpress. We need a script created that can be inserted into each of the brand pages on our Wordpress site which will read the directory structure to display the products in that brand.
Here is an example of the directory structure:
\brands\Brand Name 1
\brands\Brand Name 2
\brands\Brand Name 3
Inside each brand folder is a folder for each product. Example shown below shows products for Brand Name 1:
\brands\Brand Name 1\Product 1
\brands\Brand Name 1\Product 2
\brands\Brand Name 1\Product 2
Inside each product folder is anywhere from 1 to 4 images of that product. The first image being the “main” image, and the other images (if they exist for a given product) are alternate views for that product. Example shown below is for Brand 1, Product 1 that has 3 images total:
\brands\Brand Name 1\Product 1\[login to view URL]
\brands\Brand Name 1\Product 1\[login to view URL]
\brands\Brand Name 1\Product 1\[login to view URL]
We will need this PHP script to be able to render the page for each brand with thumbnail images so that when clicked, a lightbox appears to enlarge the picture. Further, the user should have the option to view alternate views of a product, if it exists. We can provide a sample of our Wordpress theme which has some of the lightbox functionality already built in through shortcodes.
Please provide your proposal for time and cost to complete this job.