UP FRONT:

1. no teams! I will work only with individual programmers
2. outside of South Asia, please. Eastern Europe, America, China, South Africa, wherever – not India!
3. I am a professional programmer. So dont BS me with stories of mastery of all technologies simultaneously and the pointy headed boss lingo. I will work with intelligent, competent programmers, not with BS artists.

I want to make a script for editing, searching and displaying "profile" documents. In a sense it is very similar to a generalized dating site.

The script will have some number of "users" each of whom has a profile. The profile can contain fields of several types as follows:

- text field, e.g. name, age
- text area, e.g. brief bio
- select box (aka listbox) with fixed list of options, e.g. gender or occupation
- another select box which aggregates boolean valued fields from the database. E.g. maybe we will have several fields like "are you pretty?" "is your mom pretty?" "is your sister pretty?" and for simplicity we display all of them in a select box where them being selected means "yes" and not selected means "no".

Also, for some of the select boxes of both of the above types (for the ones with too many rows) we will use the principle of parallel widgets. Instead of a single select box with some entries selected and some not, we will have two select boxes side by side. One contains "chosen options" and the other "non chosen options" and there are buttons between them to move options from one to the other and back. So this will require writing some custom Javascript to handle this issue.

We will have a template file written using a mix of HTML and XML tags inside (!– –) HTML comments. This template will contain the specification for the page layout and references to the relevant fields in the database. Based on this template our script will be able to generate 3 type of pages:
- profile displayed
- edit form allowing changing profile fields
- search profile by specifying queries for those fields that user cares about.

The search will be done using implied AND operator between fields. Kind of like Google advanced search and how search function works in most dating sites.

Web design and special beauty is not required. I wanted the functionality to work and I will pay for a prettier looking template later on if necessary.

I dont mind you using existing frameworks and/or copying code from elsewhere, but I want it to be easy to install and modify. So a framework that looks like a folder with a few files that you copy-paste into htdocs is fine, but a framework with a huge installer that requires a song-and-dance to make work is not fine.

If you dont have experience in html/xml parsing and dont have a framework that would already do that for you, I will help you with it. I am good at parsing stuff.

I would strongly prefer a programmer who will work on this full time, such as 8 hours a day, and keep me updated via Skype continually.

See also: fields, options, profile, script, search, select, work