Sukhwinder is a freelance PHP programmer/ freelance PHP developer from India with over five years of professional PHP programming/development experience. Has done many php websites and intranet applications using PHP and other web programming languages for clients from US, Canada, UK and other Europian countries. References will be provided, if asked for. You can view testimonials here.

Has experience in using PHP smarty framework and pear packages like PHP Pear DB, Pear HTML Quickform, PHP Pear XML and other pear packages.

Contact for any kind of freelance PHP or other web development work. Please note that he doesn't do any customization of scripts written by others. He almost always does projects from scratch using his own php code base he developed over years. Below is the list of some of the PHP / MySql projects he has done. List of projects including the ones done in other programming languages is here.

Freelance PHP Programmer / Developer Projects

Only Most recent work has active links with permission of clients.


1. Kneebouncers.com is a toddler gaming site with a store. Flash and other designing was done by my US friend. It includes a written from scratch e-commerce store as well as phpBB forum integration. Authorize.net is used for accepting payments. Fedex web service API is used for dynamic retrieval of available shipping options. PHP and Mysql were used to develop this fun web site.
   
   
2. USendU.com allows you to upload your videos, images and mp3s and create and send a greeting card using those. Flash, PHP and mysql were used to develop this. Small fee is required to send the greetings.
   
   
3. BeanAndBody.com is a an online store. It is has full flash based front end. PHP is used to handle flash requests and online purchases etc.
   
   
4. Hallstar.com. A big database including different types of chemical and other products. PHP and mysql were used to develop this.
   
   
5. Marilyn Manson Artwork Online is an official online store for all Marilyn Manson Artwork. Payments are accepted through PayPal PHP and Mysql were used for development.
   
   
6. J-tron.com is an online shop. They offer a complete line of sockets and interconnects from Cambion, Components Corp., and Keltron Connectors. And also stock a large variety of resistors and capacitors from Xicon Passive Components and NTE Electronics. Technology used: PHP and Mysql.
   
   
7. Dujes is a Slovenian online humoristic newspaper, based upon a humoristic radio broadcasting. Is meant to be an online community of people sharing their stories and humor online. Technology used: php and mysql
   
   
8. ICE project. The project included creating Web based User Interface to be accessed through a STB (Set Top Box) as well as through a PC. Worked in a team of around 6 people from US having specialty in different fields like creating server clusters to C++ programmers to video streaming experts. Created a web based UI which responded to STB remote keypresses as well as PC keyboard kypresses and passed data around through XML RPC. Development continued for almost 1 Year.
   
   
9. MBA Hotel Brokers was developed using php and msyql. Includes basic property listing. User must register or login to view details of a property. Properties are are added through admin CMS.
   
   
10. Hrgeo.dk is a fun danish web site. Though primarily targeting danish users, it provides users the option to switch the language to english so menu items/messages etc. appear in english. Web users fill a simple registration form and then are able to browse and download wallpapers. User has the option to submit wallpapers and if approved they appear on the web site. Also provides users the option to select an RSS feed he wants to view when he visits the web site. So whenever user logs in to web site he can view his preferred RSS feed. PHP and Mysql were used to develop this.
    
    
11. Hypnosisportal  is dedicated in promoting ethical hypnosis practice through referrals. It is an entirely free service, both for practitioners, and clients looking for appropriate therapist.
    Hypnosisportal provides clients seeking therapy the most convenient way to find, assess, and book appointments with professionals in their area through real-time calendars. You can search a professional in your Area and then view his calendar to request an appointment at time you want. PHP and mysql were used to develop this site for a UK client.
    
    
12. Ashland Tree Care was developed with the help of US designer. PHP and mysql was used to add a custom photo gallery and news module to the site. Owner can manage photos and configure gallery in many ways and can manage news using backend.
    
    
13. IFlirt is a simple fun site developed for a regular US client. Uses simple 3 field registration. After a user is registered. He can browse many profiles of people collected from all over the internet. It uses another website for profile database through REST xml api calls. Many PHP Pear packages like xml, pager, db, http and net were used to complete the site very quickly.
    
    
14. Another shopping web site done using php and MySql for a US client. Payment options include PayPal and others. Technology used: php and mysql
    
    
15. An SMS application for searching pizza shops in UK. An SMS is sent using a mobile to a fixed number with a postcode and at random 3 restaurants / pizzerias existing in that postcode area are returned. Records of messages sent / received are made for detailed reporting. Mysql and PHP were used to develop this application. Searches can be made online and by SMS. Contact for a demo.
    
    
16. Canlaw.org. A database of lawyers. Registration is not free. Users pay to search the database for a limited period. Access depends upon how many days access user has purchased. Technology used: php and mysql.
    
    
17. A movie database for intranet use. Again PHP and Mysql were used for developing this website. There are many kind of users with different roles. Took around 40-45 days to develop.
    
    
18. Internet / Intranet application for a finishing school. They teach cooking, dancing, languages and various other things. This web based application included, modules to manage students, their admissions, attendance, exams, results etc., stock, jobs, immigration and many more things. They also wanted that they should be able to work offline and then synchronize data with database on the web. And then they wanted software to keep separate records for each of their branch and that each branch should be able to synchronize its data with database on the web.
    
    It was a big project. PHP-Apache-MySql were used for this project and it took around 70 days to complete. About 270 PHP files were written for this project.
    
    
19. Another intranet application for a driving school in UK. First challenge was to extract data from a Zope application and then write the application using PHP-MySql. First had to learn about Zope and then zodb and then python.

    After extracting data it was exported to MySql database and application was re-written in PHP and about 220 PHP files were used. Took around 90 days to complete.

20. 2 Matrimonial sites. Again PHP and MySql were used for developing these web sites.
    
    
21. Another intranet application similar to address book of outlook express. Same options were there for adding new identities and for keeping contacts of each identity separate. PHP and mysql were used.
    
    
22. Online testing software to take tests on various topics. It was written using PHP and MySql.
    
    
23. An alumni site for a local school. First it was written in PHP and database was mysql and later in ASP and Sql Server were used.
    
    
24. Online result for a local school. Mysql and PHP were used. Database was designed by some other company for a desktop Application.
    
    
25. Many others small and large ones done in last year or so.

Education

Freelance PHP Programmer/Developer Experience

Took care of web development. Everything from creating web pages to uploading and maintenance. Writing JavaScript, DHTML and server side code using PHP, Servlets, ASP and Perl etc. Had to administer the network of the center, which is NT based and handled other day-to-day networking problems.

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