IrishPubReviewsFiled Under: Sites
IrishPubReviews.com was built for two purposes. The first is that there was not an Irish pub directory that was highly ranked in search engines. Of course I am still working on my ranking, so there still isn’t a highly ranked Irish pub directory. The second reason is that I wanted to build an XML based review system in PHP5. It will be used in DrinkingBeer.net for a more general pub review site.
IrishPubReviews.com is 100% AJAX. Meaning that the back end is all PHP5 which is interfaced though asynchronous javascript. I used the jQuery javascript library to speed up development time and reduce the problems with browser inconsistencies. There are many extensions to jQuery available that really ease development, but the best part of jQuery is how easy it is to write extensions. jQuery provides an invaluable abstraction layer between your interface and your javascript.
There’s a bunch of jQuery extensions for mapping, unfortunately, none of them met my needs. They either didn’t provide access to all the features of the current API, or they didn’t provide simple enough interfaces. So I wrote my own. I chose the Google APIs (Google Maps API and Google Search Local API) because it provided international searches, which is a must for Irish pubs
I’m pretty happy with the site, and I now have everything I need to start rewriting DrinkingBeer.net.
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