Created a new Web Site for all artists in the Town of Mount Royal

Jean Vaucher and I created a web site for all artists at Town of Mount-Royal.

It allows artists to present themselves and show a selection of their works.

The site is Bilingual and very user-friendly! User scan enter and modify their information themselves without the need of a Web Master.

The site will keep them appraised of current and upcoming exhibitions-Activities which could be of interest to them.

We encourage them to visit the site and let us know of any note worthy activity going on.

Just installed the new version of Chantale Beaudet Collection Web Site

I Just installed the new version of Chantale Beaudet Collection Web Site. The old site was written in HTML5.

The new site is:

• Bilingual
• «Responsive»
• Built with the latest versions of  PHP, MySQL andJoomla!
• The first step towards an eCommerce application

All the photos of the jewellery were taken by me.

Here is the link : Chantale Beaudet Collection web site

Updating my MySQL Database Applications

Since I have moved my site to a new server using PHP 7x and Mysqli all the Database applications were not working.

1. All the mysql statement needed to be replaced by mysqli and coded differently.
2. I was using the ereg function which is deprecated. I had to to change all the statement to preg_match
3. I was using Classes where the name of the function was the same as the name of the class which is a NONO in the current environment, so I had to change all that.
4. I had a lot of scope problems the classes, so I had to add global variables and using $GLOBALS[”]
5. The french accent were not displaying correctly so I changed the Character sets of all the pages to utf-8.

Here are the links to the applications.

Bilingual Calendar:

http://www.hilair.com/calendar-db/index.html

Calendrier bilingue

Annuaire des anciens du Collège Saint Marc à Alexandrie

http://ada.hilair.com/

Managing Exhibitions Registration at ART TRAM

http://www.hilair.com/tram/intro.php

SevXchange – An application to help independent contractors to exchange services:

http://www.zariffa.com/servxchange.com/

A Directory of TRAM Members

This summer, Jean Vaucher and I set out to create a directory of TRAM artists. It had been requested for several years by the members, but for various reasons had never been delivered.

Our criteria were:
• That the system be user-friendly
• That the artists can present, if they wish, their photo, a brief bio, a contact and 5 works.
• That they do it themselves
• That they can modify or delete the content at any time
• That the system is secure to avoid abuses
• That the system be efficient (fast) and does not take up  a lot of resources

I created a sub domain on HIL-AIR in order to test our work. Jean and I each having a server at home.

I must say that I had a lot of fun working with Jean. We did a lot of searching and experimenting to solve the problems we were facing. Very quickly we had something that worked, but being perfectionists, we wanted to have an efficient system, elegant and using recent technologies.

We solicited the help of several members who served as testers and gave us valuable information about what they liked or not and made suggestions that were often very judicious.

I think we have succeeded. The system is in production and the future will tell if the members like it.

Here is the link:

 The Directory