Seeking a CI Expert for Guidance

Three months at an ordinary schedule of 40 hours per week is 520 hours. That's a generous amount of time to complete a site, and certainly enough to show at least working prototypes. I'm familiar with the reinvention of the wheel phenomenon. A project at a company I once worked for kept getting redone as new technologies arose. From dBase III it went to Paradox and then to Quick Basic and finally to dot-Net until higher management killed it dead. And nothing ever worked. All the time seems to have been spent converting from one system to another.

I'm sorry to hear of your situation. All I can advise is to end your relationship with your current developer as gently as you can, and to then find someone who can implement what you've imagined.

Hey, don't work without a PHP debugger. Several free IDEs have this features built in. Two are NetBeans and CodeLobster. Without a debugger, it's like you're driving with a blindfold on -- you are going to crash!