My bank is going on strike, meaning I can't use my credit card for online payments for some time. Therefore I need to fill up my Paypal in order to continue to pay my current online based bills.

A little about me and my skills:



PHP 4 w/mySQL. Scripts will be optimized and secured against hacking and abuse, and will be thoroughly tested to prevent this.
XHTML + CSS knowledge.
HTML experience. Worked full time for 2 years as a webdesigner
Linux server administration, configuration and maintenance. Concentrating on Redhat distributions.



Why choose me?

Educated computer technican. Beginning a Master degree in computer programming next year
Polite, friendly and fluent at writing English. Will cooperate and work with the customer to complete the project satisfyingly.
Have had computers as my main interest for over 10 years

What are your rates for PHP/MySQL development? I may have a project coming up shortly.

I usually don't operate with rates, as I usually operate with a fixed price for the entire project, but I am sure I can give you a rate or a suggestion as soon as you tell me more about the project.

Ok, how about a ballpark on a hypothetical member manager, for example.
Needs the usual data collected: name, address, etc. In addition, they all come from an area of the state, so it needs to have city, which relates to the county it's in, which is related to the region as well (one state only, will provide details). They also sell products that would need to be categorized, so that I can assign categories (as keywords, perhaps) as they are entered or edited via dropdown (or checkbox, as long as they can be dynamically created from the db in the edit/add form), multiple selections allowed.

All searchable (name, category, region, city, etc), and able to display on a page in tables, two columns, expanding to more rows (TR) when there are lots of results. This display should be able to be dropped into any page.
This is a sample project, so please don't spend a lot of time working out how, just offer a ballpark estimate of cost and turnaround, please.

As I don't know if you would need any additional features, like administration section and so on, I can merely give an estimate based upon the actual project you have told me about.

For a project like this, I would estimate around $90-140. Does this sound reasonable?

Do you feel a script that manages members would be useful without a way to manage them, as in a simple admin section (add, edit, delete)? You also hadn't mentioned the potential time it might take to develop something like this. A 'ballpark' estimate is fine.

Do you have any examples of previous work?

I am sending you a PM with the examples of my previous work.