Simple OpenCart Test for potential Employee

I am trying to hire an in-house OpenCart Expert for a programming position we have available. I have a few candidates that I would like to "test" by having them write a simple extension. I don't want it to be a long test project. Just something that would take a true OpenCart developer 15 to 30 minutes to complete. That way I will know if they "really" know OpenCart extensions or not.

So if you have a suggestion of an extension that would take about 15 minutes to build, please reply with idea and details. It would be appreciated as, obviously, I know nothing about extensions...

thanks,

John

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johndfffff wrote:I am trying to hire an in-house OpenCart Expert for a programming position we have available. I have a few candidates that I would like to "test" by having them write a simple extension. I don't want it to be a long test project. Just something that would take a true OpenCart developer 15 to 30 minutes to complete. That way I will know if they "really" know OpenCart extensions or not.

So if you have a suggestion of an extension that would take about 15 minutes to build, please reply with idea and details. It would be appreciated as, obviously, I know nothing about extensions...

thanks,

John

So you need some ideas of extensions for them to build? Can they do the work of my employee's then? I have lots of it waiting

Thus the need!!! Really, was hoping for a simple idea. "Ask them to build a counter that will show the incoming IP address in admin", or something like that, as long as it would only take 15 minutes or so to build. EVERYONE is an Opencar expert on paper, I need to see results before I hire them at $125,000 a year (plus benefits) !

johndfffff wrote:Thus the need!!! Really, was hoping for a simple idea. "Ask them to build a counter that will show the incoming IP address in admin", or something like that, as long as it would only take 15 minutes or so to build. EVERYONE is an Opencar expert on paper, I need to see results before I hire them at $125,000 a year (plus benefits) !

$125,000 + benefits??? Sign me up!

DL

What's the currency? I can send you a few of my staffs at such a salary

While signing up, brace yourself, maybe he is looking for someone who will actually ask whether the comma syntax actually means the equivalent $125.000 including mils (as is customary at gasoline/petrol stations).

He came to the right place to try to figure out how to hire expertise he doesn't know, and to figure out whether to hire that in-house or perhaps instead as-needed outside. He runs da joint, or part of it. If he were "HR" (the make-work, keep-busy, never mind knowing anything "human resources" mentalities) we would have seen yards of senseless standardized specifications written by somebody who got them out of a notebook written by somebody who also didn't know what any of it might mean. Instead we saw ordinary language.

General File System:
1. What is an FTP client?
2. What does the "root" folder of your store refer to in FTP?
3. What is the best way to copy multiple files/folders to your site?
4. How do you edit a file on your server?

General Database:
1. What tool do you use to manually alter the database?
2. How do you get information from 2 related tables with one query?
3. What does "autoincrement" do and how is it used with inserts?

General OpenCart:
1. How do you add a new variable the the home page?
2. What is the call to get the current cart total?
3. How do you load a model file
4. What is vQmod and do you know how to make vQmod xml script?

OpenCart Extensions:
1. How many files are required to make a sidebox module?
2. How many files are required to make a shipping extension?
3. How do you change the wording for the Payment title on the payment selection step of checkout?

Advanced Exercises:
1. Make a module that shows the following info to logged-in customers:
- Total count of orders they have placed
- Account Creation Date
- Order id of the last order they placed
2. Make a Shipping Cost report in the admin that shows the total amount paid this month for Shipping only
3. Make a checkbox on the product page that shows/hides the current stock qty using an Ajax callback each time it is toggled.

johndfffff wrote:Thus the need!!! Really, was hoping for a simple idea. "Ask them to build a counter that will show the incoming IP address in admin", or something like that, as long as it would only take 15 minutes or so to build. EVERYONE is an Opencar expert on paper, I need to see results before I hire them at $125,000 a year (plus benefits) !

Hell for that you could hire me

Hi
i can help you create the module.

please contact me skype : webmeastro

thanks

iweballey: You need more than one cut and paste ditty, and a better machine translator than whatever you're using that consistently misses the boat, docked or at sea, alike. And idioms won't translate by machine.