The brief
4PF Homes is a Nigerian real estate company with estates in Osun and Ekiti State. Their site at 4pfhomes.com needed working form handlers (internship/SIWES applications, property inspection requests, and general contact), a fix for a recurring technical issue, and a broader pass to improve performance and search visibility.
The approach
The form handlers were debugged and rebuilt from the ground up — internship applications,
inspection requests, and contact submissions all now share consistent CSRF protection, rate
limiting, and properly formatted inline HTML email layouts, with submissions routed correctly
to info@4pfhomes.com and CC'd to the team, sent from noreply@4pfhomes.com.
One recurring issue traced back to a subtle cause: a redirect loop coming from
ob_gzhandler output buffering configured in the site's shared header file —
the kind of bug that's easy to miss because it only manifests under specific conditions, but
breaks the site outright when it does.
Beyond fixes, a full optimization pass covered .htaccess caching and compression,
Open Graph tags and JSON-LD structured data for better link previews and SEO, and a custom
PHP GD-based gallery thumbnail generator with lazy loading and a JavaScript lightbox for property
photos. The visual identity was carried through consistently — gold (#e2b358),
charcoal (#6D6E71), and cream (#F6F4F1) — with a responsive
hamburger navigation, targeting the same premium real estate aesthetic as Veritasi Homes.
Where it stands
4pfhomes.com now runs with reliable form handling across all three flows, the redirect loop resolved, and a faster, more search-friendly foundation underneath the redesigned front end.