2Deal - eBay Product Search
A German shopping site built to help people quickly search and buy eBay products. I was brought in as the sole developer to port the existing application over to the Zend Framework.
Overview
2Deal.de is a German shopping site that lets people quickly search products on eBay and pick one to buy. It wraps the raw search experience with extra product information and relevant related products, so customers can browse and find what they need with much less friction.
I joined to port the existing application onto the Zend Framework. I was the sole developer on the effort and handled every task the port required, end to end.
What It Does
- Fast eBay product search - customers search and get back matching products ready to buy.
- Enriched product views - each result is shown with additional information beyond the bare listing.
- Related products - surfaces relevant alternatives to make browsing and discovery easier.
My Role
The project was a full migration of an existing application to Zend Framework, and I owned it alone - architecture, routing, models and data access over MySQL, the eBay-backed search and product pages, and the jQuery-driven front-end behavior. Working solo on a framework port meant taking the existing functionality apart and rebuilding it cleanly within Zend's MVC structure, without losing features along the way.
Tech Stack
| Layer | Technology |
|---|---|
| Framework | Zend Framework (PHP) |
| Language | PHP |
| Database | MySQL |
| Front end | jQuery |