In-N-Out Burger

One of the main reasons anyone goes to the In-N-Out website, or any retail/restaurant site, is to find out where the nearest location is to your location. I created this flatfile database driven solution for In-N-Out that uses a number of different ways for users to find out just that.

Because of the nature of the website hosting that In-N-Out had at the time, I was not able to use a standard DB , and had to instead create both the database files and the interface to them. In order to allow their users to add new locations, I also create a secured and password protected page that allowed basic database interface (delete, add, view the db, etc) in order to allow their marketing company or users at the burger chain to change the db without editing the flatfile database directly. What I did:

• Interface allows for searching in two ways; by clicking on an image map, or by entering a zip code in the search field (I provided them with a full search engine that allowed searching based on city or street, as well, but it was decided to be too bulky on the page by the company). Both are Interfaces to the Perl database script that I wrote which searches the database.
• Resulting answers are linked to a dynamic web page that creates the web page on the fly, based on information in the database. In-N-Out has over 140 locations, and static pages would be bulky on the server.
• Javascript rollovers, image map, creation of map image in style to match their marketing, organizing project with marketing analyst in California while living in Atlanta