Sorry if this is the wrong way to go about looking for a programmer, but I was hoping maybe someone could help me or point me in the right direction.
I have what I think is a fairly simple project I'm in need of in a short amount of time for my nuke site. I run an online racing league for the Nascar Racing 2003 game from Papyrus. We use a tool that was written in .NET that basically helps us manage all our drivers carfiles. The utility is basically broken up into 2 separate application, a server app and the end user app that does the work of downloading all carfiles that have changed since they last ran the application. It does this by reading a standard .xml file and doing a checksum compare. The Server App basically creates the checksums and outputs the .xml file, which then I manually upload to our webserver. The end user runs an .exe that connects to our webserver, reads the .xml file, checks it against all the files in a given directory on their machine, and downloads only changed or new files since they last ran the application.
What Im in need of / looking for is a knowledgeable php programmer who could write an upload script that would automatically upload a file to a given directory on our website, create a checksum based on the filesize, then add that upload info to the existing .xml file, which would then make the new updated carfile available to the clientside utility immediately upon upload. As it is now my users have to upload their carfiles to a designated website. I then have to download them, add them manually using the server config utility that creates the .xml file, then i have to turn around and re-upload the carfiles, along with the updated .xml file so that the new cars are then available for download via the client utility.
I can supply the .xml file so that the programmer can see the structure of it. It seems to me that this upload page wouldn't be too big of a project for someone fluent in php, which, unfortunately I'm not. We would need the upload page to have a dropdown box that would upload the files to a different directory dependant upon the selection from the dropdown list. I can supply more info as needed to anyone who might want to consider helping me make this page. If anyone knows someone, or could you point me to a website where I might be able to get the help I'm looking for? I'd be willing to pay a reasonable amount, but I'm not "wealthy" and it is for a rather small website.
http://www.calrace.com is where the upload script would be used if you want ot check out what we do and what we're about. Thanks in advance for any assistance anyone can offer me.