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Very nice tips. Thanks.

Ok...waiting.

May God help us.

boro43:
Please i need to learn more about this, its not working for me.

Really.What exactly is the chalenge?

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Ok. Can you just give a quick how-to-use guide here...

Kudos man. This is a great one coming from Naija.

Can you explain how to use it, what do I run/how do I run it?
Let's say my application folder in htdocs is named myapp,
how do I run myapp application with this...and the database tables....?
Can everything be converted into an exe file?

There is this new e-commerce company that was posted on lindaikeji sometimes ago,
I decided to give them a try, I ordered for an Innjoo F2 tablet, by cash on delivery,
the thing was delivered to me in a few hours...with a highly professional customer
service, and I didn't have to pay any shipping cost, it was delivered free.

Not many people seems to know about the site yet, but I found that they offer
about the best prices on phones, it's my 'secret' go-to place for shopping IT items
for now, I feel I should let you know.

Visit https://www.naij.com/ , you'll see a Facebook popup box saying "Press "Like" to read Naij.com on Facebook
Read more: https://www.naij.com/"
- who knows what (Wordpress) plugin is used to achieve that?

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None. #Photoshop

yomalex:
Balance is key
Readers want to read without disturbance
Publishers want to get rewarded for their effort.

You are correct bro.

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Culled from sitepoint.com

What about the picture quality, I read a review that's a bit negative on that.

Reminds me of Abiola Babes back in the days.

Hello all, I'm looking for an admin html template that has a desktop software feel, any links?

yomalex:
I have been under a ban by a mod.Not exact but check this mythemeshop.com/themes/woocart/

THANKS

yomalex:
You can use the same platforms like Jumia and Konga use. you can also use the Vendor addon on WooCommerce too.
I have a bundle of 146 WooCommerce addons if you are interested let me know

Do you know of a woocommerce theme similar to konga.com in design?

yomalex:
You can use the same platforms like Jumia and Konga use. you can also use the Vendor addon on WooCommerce too.
I have a bundle of 146 WooCommerce addons if you are interested let me know

Ok, thanks. What platforms do Konga and Jumia use. Do those addons take on the design of the
main theme?

We want to create an online shopping platform where users can also have their own
stores to sell stuff and manage. Something similar to Konga.
What's the best way to go about this? Software and plugings
- Woocommerce, Opencart...?

Thank you.

A school needs a desktop school management software, if you have one already built, get in touch - asap.

A client was paid 100usd in Neteller for website advertisement,
now we are looking for how to convert it to Naira, if interested
in buying, you can indicate, thank you.

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Bekwarra:
Hmnnn
TECNOcrats everywhere. We need more of Iphonecrats, Blackberrycrats and Samsungcrats

What about Nokiacrats?

nnamdiosu:
nice tutorial bro. really appreciate it. but please in case its an asp application. how can i go about it using my php SMS api? thanks in advance

Thank you. Well, the api is not a php api, it is not tied to any particular
language, I think what you need to do is to look for the asp equivalents
of those file system functions and use them as specified.

We have to urlencode() the message to take care of spaces between words,
this is necessary when sending via url, otherwise only the first word gets sent.

Let's save that in a file named myfunctions.php

This is a simplistic function, it assumes a successful send operation as we didn't test
if the sms was sent or not based on the api response. Api responses differ, we have to follow
the documentation of the particular api we are using, I might write another sendsms funtion that takes this into
account later based on the Supertext api.

Now, to the signup code.

<?php

if(isset($_POST['signup']))
{

// please do all your security and validation stuff

include('myfunctions.php');

$name = $_POST['name'];
$email = $_POST['email'];
$password = $_POST['password'];
$gsm = $_POST['gsm'];

if(save_to_db($name,$email,$password,$gsm))
{
echo "<div class='success'>Sign up successful, you will get an alert shortly.</div>";
// set the sms message
$message = "Hello $name, thank you for registering on our site.";
$sender_id = "Our Site"; // set the sender id
// now call the sendsms function to send message to the user
sendsms($gsm,$sender_id,$message);
}
}

?>

That's it folks, 'hope it's clear enough. The save_to_db() function is
the function that saves the user details to your database, we assume it's
included in the myfunctions.php file, we are not concerned with it's
details here.

Comments are welcome.

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A lot of applications nowadays are sms-enabled. In this tutorial I'm going to show you how to integrate
sms-sending capability into your applications, some of the common uses of sms in applications include:
sending a custom message to a user after signing up, or after making a purchase on an ecommerce site,
automatic birthday greetings and of course the familiar bank transaction alerts("Godwin",lol), there could be
countless other creative uses, the idea is the same as we are going to see.

[size=13pt]What you need[/size]

Now, to sms-enable your application, you need access to an sms gateway api...and the documentation.
An example of such is the one provided by Supertext:

http://www.supertextng.com/api.php?username=[username]&password=[password]&destination=[destination]&message=[message]&sender=[sender]

This is a RESTful HTTP API, you can consume it in whatever language you use.
Here, we are going to be speaking PHP, but the principle is the same for all languages.

Most sms api's are in this form. If you type that api url in a browser, something happens, an sms gets
sent if everything is rigth, a response is returned in any case.

Now, the question to ask is how do we open that url programatically i.e within an application.
In the answer to that question lies the crux of the matter.

[size=13pt]Filesystem functions and cURL to the Rescue[/size]

The api url can be viewed as a resource or as a file with some content, when you open it, some textual
content is returned as a response, that means we can use filesystem functions like file(), fopen(),
file_get_contents() to programatically open the api url and achieve what we want.

The cURL library can also be used to achieve the same end, and this seems to be what is often used in practice,
but here we are going to take an illustrative example using the file() function.

[size=13pt]An Example[/size]

Let's say you want to send an sms automatically to users after they sign up for your application.
The signup form essentially consists of the Name(name), Email Address(email), Password(password), and GSM Number(gsm) fields.
You already have access to an sms gateway api.
To make things neat, let's write a standalone function for sending sms that we can always call to get the job done.

Here we go...

<?php
function sendsms($to,$from,$message) // I believe the variables are self-explanatory
{
$message = urlencode("$message";
$from = urlencode("$from";
$api_username = "blablabla";
$api_password = "shoGoLogoBanGosHe";
// feed the parameters into the api and open url with the file() function
file("http://www.supertextng.com/api.php?username=$api_username&password=$api_password&destination=$to&message=$message&sender=$from" ;
}
?>

Nice. Kudos.

Please tell him to be careful in rooms with ceiling fans o.

Lol

mj:
You need to add a Listener.
class is class WC_Gateway_PayNow extends WC_Payment_Gateway {}
// Payment listener/API hook
add_action does this add_action( 'woocommerce_api_wc_gateway_paynow', array( $this, 'check_ipn_response' ) );
function check_ipn_response() {
//handle the responses here returned.
}

Thanks, that was in place but still got the error.