The coverage of the money back guaranty is usually covered in the terms of service of the host service provider. Each service provider will obviously have their refund policy so it's best to find out from them directly.

Well, most webhosts offer 30-day money back guaranty. You can get a refund from your webhost if you're still within the 30-day window.

I think I just dropped a stone on my foot.

Wait for the estimated delivery date and about a week after, before opting for the expedited delivery.

My expired card was reissued in May this year and was estimated to arrive June 30. By June 30 I didn't get it, I opted for the expedited option the next day. My account was debitted 50 usd. By the afternoon of that same day the postman came with the card that I had been waiting for. I couldn't cancel the DHL order so I have ended up with 2 cards. One activated and the dhl one still in the sealed envelope. I was told to keep it as I could use it as a replacement card if I misplaced the active card.

Is it a top CIA secret that you can go to aliexpress.com and order for 20,000 pieces of any android tablet of your specifications and design to be mass produced and have its OS and housing branded with your business name?

Create a database table called "states" with the following fields "id(auto increment, primary key)", "state (varchar 100)"
Create another db table called "lgas" with the following fields "id (auto increment)", "state (foreign key)", "lga"

Now prefill the "states" db table with all the 36 states, do not prefill the IDs as this will be autoincremented.
Then prefill the "lgas" table with all the LGAs for all the states, ensure you fill in the ID of the state from the "states" table as the "states" field in the "lgas" table.

Now you should have a complete database of all states and their LGAs.

To the code:
Combining php, html, jquery

create a form with a select input field.
-query database for all the states
-foreach entry, create a new <option> tag inside the <select> you created. the value of the <option> tag should be the ID of the state from the DB "states" table.
-add a listener to the select statement, probably an onchange or onclick listener (check the jQuery documentation for help).
-create a variable in javascript (e.g var state_id that holds the <select>'s value, which is the ID of the selected state.
-in your JS add a function to the listener and the function should call the ajax() and you should give a php file name as the load attribute of this ajax(). e.g "load_lga.php". Remember to affix the ID to the file you are about to load like "load_lga.php?id="+state_id

Now create the load_lga.php file
in this file you first GET the "id" variable that is coming in
$id = $_GET("id";
That is the selected state.
Now create another <select> tag
Then run a query to select all from lgas where state = $id
Populate the <options> tag with the result.
Remember to echo the entire <select> tag and its <option> tags out so the jquery ajax() can pick it and display it where you want it to.


I'm sorry if this looks far from simple for you but its one of the right ways to get it done. I think you should learn the basics to get this to work. Once you learn the basics, you'll see its actually a simple solution.

I didn't read your codes so I'm going to answer you based on the problem you have stated.

For the list (psuedocode)

create an iteration through your db records
<foreach>
<a href="your_file?id=$record_id">Edit Post</a>
</foreach>


For the modal window, pull the post from the db where ID = the "id" GET variable. Add the "id" GET variable as a hidden input type in the form and in the file that processes the DB update, retrieve the hidden attribute through POST.


You should look at this plugin
http://vitalets.github.io/x-editable/

See how it can be implemented, check one of my past projects:
http://sawyerrken.net/projects/dreni/
username: admin
password: admin

Once logged into the dashboard, click on the "Bets" botton. Once in the bets page, click on any of the values in blue to edit then and see how it works.

egift:
@ DualCore1:
Thanks. The worst is that some of the sites are own by client who just bought hosting and designed an uploaded their content. Suddenly VBHOSTNET.com is saying everything is gone. Not even a byte of data left.
BTW, what better Reseller Provider will you recommend? Because without restoring my files, I see no reason I or anyone will continue uploading their files to VBHOSTNET.

I'm not in a fair position to make recommendations. I suggest you search Google for good host service providers. Make a list of about 5 of them and search Google again for the good and bad reviews of each of the 5.

wisemaster:

Tnx....whenever you want to withdraw, do you punch the amount in naira or dollars and what charges do u pay per withdrawal

There are charges per withdrawal from Payoneer and the ATM but I really haven't checked because it is negligible.

I won't face your host service provider because its clear they lack the technical ability to be in the hosting business. It's a waste of time flogging a dead rat.

You, egift, how have you been going to sleep in the past 2 years knowing your entire sites are on a server in another continent, a server you do not have direct access to and one managed by an incompetent team...and you really didn't think it necessary to have your own backups?

Moving forward, I strongly advice you ignore anything any webhost tells you about their backup policy and make your own backups. It never hurts to keep your own backups. Its even better to be recovering a site from your own backups because you can't be sure your host's backups were not compromised in the same actions that led to the data loss in the first place.

The sooner we get to terms with the reality that making backups of our projects is primarily our responsibility (not the host, irrespective of their heavenly promises) the better it will be.

Backing up data is an expensive venture that rookies think they can cut corners and just keep the backed up data on the same server or on a different VPS container on the same server node. They are left with a single point of failure so when the server crashes, both the main data and the backed up data are gone.

As for legal proceedings, this is why there's nothing you can do because you already agreed that they could wipe away all your files anytime they wanted:

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Excerpt from VBHOSTNET's TOS
3. Backups

Your use of the service is at your sole risk. VBHOSTNET shall not responsible for files and data residing on your account. You agree to take full responsibility for files and data transferred and to maintain all appropriate backup of files and data stored on our servers

===================

The Payoneer card is from MasterCard and should work anywhere that MasterCard is accepted. I just got a replacement of my expired card and the new one has worked on every ATM I have used and I use it a lot.

The trained and fully protected fire fighter stands and "supervises" the untrained and unprotected roadside guys put out the fire?

The topic is "Pls Advice: A Developer Has Refused My Access To The Website Database I Paid For".

Afam4eva:
I really don't I understand how a developer will build a site for someone and still reserve the right to own the codes. What exactly does that mean? I think the client made abgrave mistake by not going through the contract papers carefully before signing because as it is, based on what Lincolnpix has said and if true, will win this one in a court of law.

Having said that, we developers should try as much as possible to employ some level of kindness when dealing with people. I know its a business but we shouldn't go to any length to rip off clients who may not understand what they are signing up for.

One can only play "god" with ignorant people. There are just a few ignorant people out there now so the "web developers" are trying hard to squeeze as much as they can get from them before their ignorance wears off.


Subset, my advice to you. Don't try to push this case any further, you don't have winning case. Agreeing to the terms of this individual was the first mistake you made. Take it as a lesson and move on. Get a professional web developer to handle your project and be sure to agree with your developer that you're getting all source codes as deliverables at the end of the project. Secondly, NEVER give the hosting of your website to the developer to handle. The web developer is not a web host. His job should stop at developing your application and placing it on your hosting account. You do not need any NASA training to manage the hosting of your websites, you just need Google. It is only a developer who wants to make you a steady and constant source of revenue that will insist on hosting your project and you should run away from such individuals. Your web developer has nothing whatsoever to do with your domain name or its hosting, all he has to do is give you the basic requirements your hosting environment needs to have to be able to run his application.

Any web developer who is so shallow-minded to stifle clients with these kind of terms is just in this thing for the business(extortion) and not for the passion and it is only a matter of time before the web developer is out of business.

lincolnpix:
Morning all,
Lincoln Gbenga Olagbaju (armed with integrity and passion)

What integrity is there to your name? You deliver a job in 7 months when the ETA was 2 months ...and you still haven't delivered all the requested features. Let me take a wild guess, you're waiting for a real web developer to develop the plugin(s) and put online as opensource with that shiny "download" button.

What passion do you have? You choke your clients with ridiculous terms that show you're just out to milk them. You've done nothing strange. Nigerians have been preying on the ignorance of their fellow brothers and sisters since 1960.

Keep the words in bold away from your future manifestos until you know what they mean.

//un-follow'd

There is www.freelancer.com
You set your terms, you only get to release the funds to the developer after you get results and the same Nigerian "developers" (more like web extortioners, CMS installers and plugin/themes downloaders) playing god here are there too but they hardly get any jobs awarded to them because they really cannot deal with the world of a professional web developer.

Thank you guys, thanks a lot. I will contact each Skype user shortly.

Omoelu, thanks. I just want one person for direct communication. They are mostly mid-scale projects (I will handle anything major) so using a team will just be overkill. Considering the little earnings coming out of it too, it wont be humane on my part to put a dev team on up to $300 per week.

I usually have little web development projects to do. There could be up to 7 projects coming in in a week and ranging from $100 - $350 with a completion time frame of 2-4 days. Most weeks I end up having to carry over some projects because I am only able to complete 4-5 projects in a week. The clients are always understanding and don't have a problem waiting for a couple of days more to get their jobs. Web development is supposed to be my hobby but its beginning to require even more from me than my main job.

Basically I need a full stack PHP developer who will handle any surplus work I have. No frameworks knowledge needed (you will likely never have to use them on my projects).
Most of the projects assigned are to be completed in 2-4 days and could range from ($100 - $350). The projects will require intermidiate-advanced knowledge in PHP, MySQL, HTML, CSS (incl Bootstrap), JS (incl jQuery).

Payment will be made on a per project basis with the developer earning up to 70% of the project's cost and no less that 50%. In most cases I will handle the whole project planning, workflow, diagrams and database schema design. All the developer will need to do is understand my laid down plans, create the database(s) and code.

I will have to show the developer how I code, how I arrange my files into folders (it may be weird but in most cases, the only file on the root folder is index.php, everything else has been neatly placed into folders with a maximum depth of 2), how I route page requests. Just so that I can pick up any project and just blindly move around like I was the one that wrote it without having to study lines upon lines of codes and files scattered about, to understand the developers frame of mind at the time of coding.


The following should be noted:
1. I won't ask you to build a script like Facebook in 2-4 days.
2. This is not a fulltime job, but I will prefer someone who is always online. You could earn up to $100 on a project and could handle up to 3 projects in a week depending on how fast you can work (that's about $300 in a week).
3. All communication will be done through Skype.
4. Open to a male or female
5. No price negotiations, the projects will be shown to you and their costs. You choose what you want to do. Its fine if you don't want any.
6. There won't be any close supervision, the reason I am outsourcing is so I can also work on other projects at the same time and also face my main job.
7. The developer should be comfortable working with either Notepad++ or PHPStorm.

Please just drop your Skype ID.

There's something called Bootstrap

There is something called Teamviewer.

It was in 1997 developers needed login details for little fixes of this nature.


@OP, when someone fixes this for you and your boss is wowed by your "talent" and starts throwing chunks of web design/development fixes your way, how do you intend to handle that? If web design/development is not in your job description or resume, you know you can tell your boss you cannot do it right?

Why are they all short?

Nothing personal but won't it just be fine if this "problem" was nationwide? One less source of spam to worry about! Anyway, with the amount of useless spam I receive daily, bulk text messages are working in ph.

I have to get into that site at least once a month to renew my EasyFlex and EasyBlaze plans. I got in today and I see they have a "new" website.

In summary these guys just dropped a stone on their foot in a bid to try to present a responsive site whose design should appeal to both mobile and desktop users without having different designs and styles for the different viewports.

The website looks okay on a mobile device however on a standard desktop browser it looks like a mobile website horribly ported to desktop by an NIIT student as an assignment to submit the next day (those guys sure know how to give you the wrong assignments).

Link: etisalat.com.ng


P.S: For other browser bookmarks and history junkies who like to type a word in the address bar and wait for the full URL to drop down, I know typing "easyblaze" in your browser's address bar will give you "http://www.etisalat.com.ng/easyblaze/easyblaze.php" but too bad that link no longer delivers the content you seek, its a dead page now and the concept of 404 error pages or redirections (to preserve continuity after URL change) is still brand new to our web developer friends at Etisalat.


A developer with some time in their hands (either due to retirement or you get bug and you dey give the bug time) should do a more detailed review on this website please.

There's trust and professionalism.

Yes. What they do with that access is another matter.

You chose a South African web designer to "design" your site for you, a site meant for Nigerians and are coming to the Nigerian webmaster's section to advertise.

And by the way, tell WDS I don't think RocketThemes will be very happy with him if they see he has taken their template (demo link below) and has crested his name on it as the designer. "Design by WDS Creative"

One can't blame you too much for going outside Nigeria to hire the services of a template installer/modifier. This board is full of scams pulled by those we are supposed to be hiring.

All the best, eBoy.

Demo: http://www.rockettheme.com/joomla/templates/anacron

I don't think you should be taking them on a full course on HTML at that level. I suggest you help them understand what HTML does and what they can do with it. Help them appreciate HTML. In the future, when the time is right, they will make an informed decision as to what they want to learn.

You should change that clause "50% once the website has been completed" in your future agreements or your should modify it to "50% once the website has been completed and before the release of all necessary control panel login details".

For this case, you have no case because she can argue that "50% once the website has been completed" means she will pay you the balance when you have finished the job and sent her all login details as that marks the completion.

If you have hosted the website yourself and are in custody of the domain name, go ahead and give her the cPanel login details. Whenever you want to pull the plug on the domain, you can just change the DNS of the domain name to point somewhere else or ask for the cPanel login details to be reset by your host.

If the hosting account is under her custody, you could still give her the cPanel login details but create a self-destruct sequence in your code that will delete all the files and folders in the public_html directory and wipe the database. In this case you will have to setup a cronjob that runs daily and checks for the particular date you have set for the self-destruct and then it fires it.

A simple line of php code to wipe your public_html folder is (untested):

exec("rm -rf /home/username/public_html/*";

Sorry about the smiley, after several years (and counting) Seun and his crew have still not figured out how to render code on Nairaland's WYSIWYG editor. When I say Seun is neither a programmer nor a developer, e be like sey I dey beef am.

r = recursive
f = force
username=your cpanel username.


Side note: For future projects, if after your analysis you see you can charge 70 Naira to execute a project, charge 100 Naira and request for 70% upfront and the 30% after completion. Your 70% upfront is 70 Naira which is actually all you need. So whether the client agrees to pay the remaining 30% or not, you have been paid in full. Try to ensure you never go below 70% for mobilization. If you've gotten to the stage where I got to before I dumped Nigerian clients and their woes, you can ask for 100% upfront or no work ...it worked almost all the time.

Updated Date: 2015-04-19T11:50:30.00Z
Creation Date: 2011-04-18T12:58:00.00Z
Registrar Registration Expiration Date: [b]2015-04-18[/b]T12:58:48.00Z

The domain expired 2 days ago and its either the owner (Deji Oke) forgot to renew the domain or he is not interested in the domain anymore and so allowed it to expire. Someone who knows him should try contacting him by phone.

So because a Nigerian site offering online services does not use Interswitch but Paypal, it is fraudulent.
Because you are unable to reach them as claimed, it is fraudulent.
Because they bill you in Dollars, it is Fraudulent.

And we wonder why serious online services do not consider the Nigerian audience as profitable, when the "webmasters" of the biggest forum in the country are stuck in 1998.

EBay + Paypal + MyUS premium + consolidation.

I'm thinking only a few of you will see it. The rest of the world moved on a long time ago.

I don't know which is more of a nightmare... seeing an individual with a Yahoo! account or seeing another individual surfing the net with Internet Explorer (in this age and time).