Brian Ess

Ecommerce & blog site for UK tradesmen and women

PHP | Stripe API Gateway | SQL

Primarily selling website design packages, the site contains a blog to attract customers and drive SEO. Utilizes Stripe’s API payment gateway.

CRM and Booking Management System for Gym

Laravel | SQL | JS Libraries

Laravel-based CMR and booking system and site. Back end allows site owner to create and maintain gym classes and bookings, manage customer details and sales. Users can register and book classes.
Utilizes SQL and various JS libraries such as Data Tales and Calendar.

API (Google Maps & Visual Crossing) based data & Subscription Service

PHP | Google Maps APIs | Visual Crossing API | SQL

Find the best three-hour period to dry clothes in any Google Maps-listed location, for up to 7 days. Subscribe to receive weekly results, emailed at any hour or day of your choosing.

Uses Google Maps Autocomplete and Timezone APIs for geolocation data, and Visual Crossing API for weather data

Covid API Data and Map

PHP | API Data | JVectorMap (JQuery)

A quick and simple site that uses API data from Rapid API, and presents this using a map.
Includes option to view data by region and stats for individual countries

News Headline Scraper & API

PHP

A PHP-based webscraper that allows users to get front-page headlines from various publications
Includes an API where results can be obtained in JSON.

PHP and Vue.js Game based on Web Scraped Data

PHP | Vue.js | Web Scraping

Built with PHP on the backened and Vue.js for the front end. Users select two famous persons before a small amount of data (a short quote) is scraped from a third-party site, leaving users to guess which of the two selected famous persons spoke the famous words.

Cocktails - User-Content Sharing

Node JS | MongoDB | JS Libraries

Node js and MongoDB-based site allows users to select and view cocktails based on spirits or flavours, as well as adding their own choice of drink and comments.

CMS - Blog

PHP | SQL

A Wordpress-style CMS for blogging. User can add posts as well as monitor comments. Displays site views and comments per article. Entries may be sorted by date, number of views or comments. Built with PHP.

Japanese Learning Tool

JS | HTML | CSS

Built in Javascript, this site allows users to select one of five levels to practice Japanese vocabulary for the JLPT exams.