Donate a Car 2 Charity has been redone a number of times over the years. I was first approached to redo the site after another company had done a slap up job on it.

The main component of the website I was programming was an administrative backend to manage car donations from receipt to case closed. I used PHP as my language of choice and MySQL for the backend, however I also used John Lim’s ADOdb library in case the site was gonna be moved to another database platform. In the end it stayed with MySQL, but during that time I became very fond of the object oriented approach of ADOdb as well as the ease of use.

While working on this site I began to perfect my PHP site engine which I affectionately call CCS (Concurrent Coders Suite). This site runs an early alpha version of it and has since been customized to fit the needs of the site.

In mid 2006, I revisited the code of the site and did a major rewrite of many of the components, opting for a OO approach to the backend as well as Javascript to improve the verification of web forms. The site also received a face lift on the backend.

Most of the frontend of the site was designed by my friend Steve.