Rich,
I just hired a company called WebNovas Tech. They kick ass seriously... First 3 days of working system was up and being programmed in realtime. They sat with me the whole time asking questions and informing me asking me about functions and even including some non-required functions and they are actually very useful in my system.
My whole system was fairly reasonable. Work like this isnt cheap for PHP,MYSQL, and realtime functions.
I'd give them a shout though....
His email address is :
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