Quote Originally Posted by Joacim Andersson View Post
The question wasn't how long it would take to finish a complete project but how long would it take to get a UI where you can select a customer and get a result of all orders in a DataGrid or something similar.
I know, I was responding to this
So having said, the task you describe, if It were me would take only a couple hours (and that's with all the little fine details)
This could be thrown together in minutes, if all infrastructure is in place and if that would be the only thing you wanted to do. But in reality there is always something more that should be done but for this simple requirement it still shouldn't take more than a few hours. The OP posted an image of what he has today in Access, he wanted the same but on a webpage.
Agreed, but the other thing that must always be considered is the time spent before you begin work, getting the details and coming up with the price. Even on a tiny project that is very simple there is always some time there. I have did several projects where the back and forth emails, phone calls and such exceeded the time it took to do the coding and testing.

Then there are things like security, login and permissions. New customer forms, order forms and so on... That would be the whole project which of course would take more than just a few hours but 2-3 months to move a 2 table Access app to the web sound like a very long time, not to talk about 10 months.
Agreed, 2-3 months is a very long time even if the programmer is only working a few hours a week on it.


Is there a better forum for this?
It would seem a bit out of place in this section since it seems to be about PHP