sisqology:



Gives good description now. Better than before. Don't mind us, we are nutty like that on Nairaland at times


Cheers.

sisqology:




Lmao

*omni:
Best ever written script, poor servers and technologies also Database structure/ admin equals a waste of resources.

I guess the spec of trying to bring out best geeks or programmers should simply be limited to or changed to have ONLY Python based programmers. Allowing all other languages will do better to suffice for your former claim @Seun. Don't always be intimidated by PHP ok?

@Programmers Money must not always motivate us to do things. When are most of us going to stop acting so hungry? Just so bad the world knowing how hungry some of us are. Even if you've not seeing such an amount before, be amazed with style before your PC and not publicly here.

Success to contestants in Python. All my other PHP lookers, let's be cheering at them yet getting the same problem solved with our preferred programming language.

One last thing, I think someone here actually needs Python coders and since none is showing up a better approach as this is invented to lure that needed coder out of his haven.

¤PHP for life!¤

yamakuza:

if u can do the above in 4 hrs, u should be able to learn Python and port it in 4 days.

Using Python and not PHP, is the only way u can win the money.

You stand a good chance of winning. Dont u want the money? $1k!

dualcore:

seun:
"getting the real jamb script for benchmarking!! "

ivoice247: @dayhawk.. stop wasting your time. What you posted is a simple database script for processing, submitting and extracting data. Master/slave servers are only responsible for communication protocol and not load balancing issues. The crash on jamb website can NEVER be solved by creating 15 databases on 15 servers, 15 domains/subdomains etc blah blah blah, nor can it be solved by using python or google code or what ever super script writing program knowledge you might posses.... IT IS SIMPLY A SERVER PROBLEM.. plain and simple.

@dualcore... you are CORRECT. The problem is load balancing (in layman's term;- managing visitor's traffic to the website) has already been identified in Seun's post.

You see, the problem is that jamb is hosting their website on a server which has limited bandwidth throughout the year, although this bandwidth is enough during most times of the year, there's usually an exponential surge in visitor's traffic during the release of results which causes the servers to crash or shutdown. The solution will be for them to increase server capacity during these periods so as to accommodate the sudden increase in traffic. But it will be very expensive to maintain these server capacity throughout the year so what i suggest is that they go for AMAZON EC2 (amazon elastic compute cloud hosting);- this is a pay-as-you-go server hosting service, where you only pay for server capacity utilized and automatically increases or decreases the server capacity as traffic increases or decreases.

yamakuza:

how many minutes will it take you to port this to Python and claim the N150k?

dayhawk:
sorry yamakuza,i am not translating this to python yet..."im working on my first industrial website,and i had to take a leave of more that 4hours to figure out and give the correct answer in the best language" just like a dying star on the verge of collapse or a young child learning how to read, just like your white blood cells rushing to attack a virus : these are but a few of the ways to address objects in our physical worlds. oop[lb] is difficult to understand in one language and impossible to accomplish on multiple platforms. i am 100% sure that my solution solves the issue stated.
yet i believe for the best result using js + php would,and have given us the best result. due to php->js and js->client integration. the impact is just too much to neglect.

i only decided give a feedback because i want seun join my group,because we are developing a site that might possible absorb the world!!hopefully. will be launched in two week!

"one tackles complexity/problem with simplicity/solution(PHP), and not complexity/problem with complexity/problem(PY)".

<?php
$a=rand(1,15);// rand number from 1 to 15
$b="http://www.jamb".$a."."."org.ng";//creates http://jambX.org.ng, where x is a random number btwn 1-15
$c=$b."/unifiedtme/default.php";// makes http://jambx.org.ng/unifiedtme/default.php

header('location:'.echo($c).''); // automatically redirects the person to a random server out of the 15 jamb servers


?>

<form action="process.php" method="post" name="jambresult">
<input type="text" name"jambinput" /><hr />
<h3>enter your reg num/SN/PIN</h3>
<a href="javascript:#" onclick="jambstart()" />
</form>

<div style="position:absoulute; top:40%; left:40%;height:auto; width:auto; z-index:100; visibility:hidden" id="divload">
<img src="processing.gif" />
</div> <!-- this animated image which writes processing,  displays for 10 seconds before the jamb form is submitted -->

<script>
jambstart()
{
setTimeout('jambwait()',10000)
var x=document.getElementById('divload')
x.style.visibility="visible";
 //
}
jambwait()
{
document.jambresult.submit()
}

<!-- this 10 seconds implement helps because the -->

</script>

<?php
ini_set('max_execution_time',30); //means this script executed over 30seconds then it times out
ini_set('memory_limit',90500M); //increases the ram
include('config.php'); //dont use persistent connection
incude('check_class.php');
?>
<?php

$jin=mysql_real_escape_string(stripslashes(striptags($_POST['jambinput'])));
$check=new result($jin) // sends data to the class 'result' ;
$check->good_e();

if($check)
{
}
?>

<?php
class result
{
  function __construct($in) //takes data from 
{
$this->in=$in;
$this->update=mysql_query("SELECT * FROM userresult WHERE regnum='$in' OR sn='$in' OR pin='$in'";
}

function good_e()
{
return $this->in;
if(mysql_num_rows($this->update) < 1)
{
echo "<script>alert('WRONG SN/PIN/REGNUM!')</script>"
}
else
{
setcookie("dog",$this->in,time()+2000); //sets cookie up after verification 
header('location:result.php'); //r
}

}

?>

<?php


ini_set('max_execution_time',40); //means this script executed over 30seconds then it times out
ini_set('memory_limit',9050M); //increases the ram
include('config.php');
$bin=$_COOKIE['dog'];
$binx=mysql_query("SELECT * FROM userresult WHERE  regnum='$in' OR sn='$in' OR pin='$in'"
sleep(10) // sleeps delays the person for 10 more seconds so that so many other people can aswell access the script without overload
$data=mysql_fetch_array($binx);

echo($data['subject1']);
echo($data['subject2']);
echo($data['subject3']);
echo($data['subject4']);
echo($data['regnum']);
echo($data['name']);
echo($data['examnum']);

mysql_close();
?>