// industrial automation · LDI Eletrônica · custom CMS
LDI Eletrônica Industrial
A dynamic PHP/MySQL platform built for an industrial electronics distributor — full product catalog across 20+ categories, custom CMS admin, customer registration, inquiry cart, and a Flash animated splash screen, all delivered in 2005.
PHP5.2
JavaScriptES3
HTML5
CSS3
MySQL5.02005
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Overview
LDI Eletrônica Industrial is a Joinville-based (Santa Catarina, Brazil) distributor and manufacturer of industrial automation and electronics components. Their product line spans 20+ categories — solid-state relays, digital timers, temperature and refrigeration controllers, process controllers, digital indicators and counters, signal converters, current transformers, presence and temperature sensors, surge filters, fuses, and queue-management panels — serving industrial clients across Brazil.
The website, released in 2005, was built to replace a static brochure presence with a fully dynamic platform. At its core is a MySQL-backed product catalog organized into categorized "families," with paginated listings, product images with pop-up enlargement, PDF data sheets, and a full-text search covering product code, name, and description.
The front end opened with a Flash animated splash screen (now playable via Ruffle.js). Navigation used JavaScript-driven fly-out menus generated from the database, so new categories appeared in the menu automatically as soon as an admin added them. A left sidebar displayed the full category list and a live cart summary.
The custom admin panel (/admin) let non-technical staff manage every piece of content — products, categories, text pages, partner links, contact directories, and site configuration — through browser-based forms with image upload and thumbnail generation. Customers could register via a four-step wizard, log in, and build an inquiry basket. A product-recommendation feature let users forward product pages by email, and a newsletter system supported outbound marketing.
Stack: PHP 5 + MySQL 5.0, vanilla JavaScript (Dreamweaver MX-era DHTML helpers), and Macromedia Flash for the animated intro.
Highlights
Database-driven product catalog
A searchable, categorized catalog spanning 20+ product families with datasheets and image enlargement replaced a static brochure site, letting industrial buyers find exact components fast.
Self-service content administration
A browser-based admin panel let non-technical staff manage products, categories, and pages — new categories even appeared in navigation automatically — removing ongoing dependence on a developer.
Customer registration and inquiry cart
A guided sign-up wizard plus an inquiry basket and product-forwarding email turned catalog browsing into captured B2B leads and an outbound marketing channel.