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NiyiOmoIyunade:
Oga Makavele! You have been missed!!!

Glad to have you back!

Oga Niyi,

Thank you.

I decided to tow the path of the silent observer.

zeestone99:
Yeah charging current is adjustable, for the idle consumption, u won't expect anything less from a 5kva, though it's smaller compared to the likes of mustpower n co

Just tell him to read the damn manual.

Super trash

open notepad, press all alphanumerical keys
on the keyboard one at a time, till you see the backslasj

option, google back slash then copy n paste, lol

Bad color combination

Buhari , you have 1 more week

Jay1F:
sorry but the questions are mostly trivial and I won't want to bother people over missing an ";" .. that's why

No matter how trivial, endeavour to post here
so all can learn

This is a very dumb thread that should have been trashed in one line.
Yes a degree in Comp. Sci is very good [especially one
gotten outside the walls of the Nigerian curriculum], but if a programmer doesn't have one and can push himself beyond limits, he'll do just fine! The only drawback is that
he'll have to learn by trial and error as he goes on; and will be very much dependent on tools created by the "computer scientists" in the first instance.

Deicide:
I don't think PHP dev are software developer...

Without using Google, in your own words, define the term "software developer"

Bros, I weak !

Okontami:
It is surely a part time gig for you. Just with clear deliverables and timelines.

Sent you an email via Nairaland's PM-to-email feature

It says you have a syntax error; you might as well want to check the Repository.php file and paste the contents here in quotes.

a better .htaccess file (to be put in root folder of project)

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
<IfModule mod_negotiation.c>
Options -MultiViews -Indexes
</IfModule>

RewriteEngine On

# Handle Authorization Header
RewriteCond %{HTTP:Authorization} .
RewriteRule .* - [E=HTTP_AUTHORIZATION:%{HTTP:Authorization}]

# Redirect Trailing Slashes If Not A Folder...
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} (.+)/$
RewriteRule ^ %1 [L,R=301]

# Handle Front Controller...
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^ index.php [L]

RewriteRule ^.env - [F,L,NC]

</IfModule>

Finally, like you already know artisan cli commands are run via the terminal. Thus, you need ssh access
to be able to replicate such commands in production. It would be a pain
to always run production locally before shipping to "server"

I hope you know wordpress already uses the php & mysql platform.

If you want a full-blown standalone php web app; you would need to start over.

@Okontami

If this is a part time job, I would be interested.
I currently work as a software developer for an organization in Europe deploying enterprise solutions for tech firms.
Let me know if you need to take a look at my resume or LinkedIn profile.

cbrass:
Hello guys, have you used Lumen 5.7? Please how did you set it up to work on a shared server. I am having trouble with it

Just like any other flavor/package of Laravel,
you can deploy on shared hosting.
Just make sure the hosting account has SSH access.

What is the problem you are facing to be precise?

Talkwisdom:
What's bad about PHP?

Dont mind him. He doesn't know what he is saying.
A typical follow the crowd eBook programmer.

Everybody is just making noise, yap yap yap.
Goes to show the low literacy level of most Nairalanders, in comparison to sites like Quora.
If anyone had bothered to read the terms and conditions, it states while scanning a cheque with the mobile app allows the funds to be deposited in your account, you are not allowed to spend the value immediately UNTIL you bring the physical copy of the cheque to any branch.
More so, if you delay or refuse to bring it, they will reverse the deposit. It is not like the US, where you deposit a check at the ATM and get a percentage of it instantly in your available balance.
End of discussion.

2 days: 2.5 million ngn

2 weeks: 1 million ngn

2 months: 500k ngn

2 years: 300k ngn

Explain how you will get this done and your price. Need this in 2days.

Sorry, only finished products.


p.s: If you needed ratings from an open ecosystem, I would do it for free!

I was once like this, in fact, everybody was once like this.

It starts from being boring, then it becomes interesting.

Then it becomes super difficult, and you keep wondering: How the heck am I supposed to understand this logic?

Then it becomes manageable to understand with a few reminders every other day or so.

Then you forget it and need to go back and do a refresher.

Then it becomes easy

and it becomes fun.

MountainView:
i think that would be a bad option, cos paystack charges 1.5% for transactions <= 2500, && 1.5% + 100 for transactions above 2500,
so imagine someone wants to deposit 100,000 into his/her piggybank account, that means, you the merchant would charge the user 101600, which doesn't sound like saving to me.

Paystack charges the merchant
not the end-user (saver).
The merchant will make money via turnover
depending on volumes of users plus fees.
If the users are quite small, then it's a loss already. so profit will be determined by volume of users

asalimpo:
i've learnt so much from you. Actually, when i first read of paystack nd Ycombinator parlaying with them,and about two young undergrads from babcock uni (?), my mind was connctng some dots. Thinkng d private university cs deprtmnt's superior tiution had delivered its geniuses. And it was so great YC,an international company got interested. Yc funded airbnb nd dropbox(?) both groundbreaking ,though not techwise. I'm not putting them down but i was thinkng they were a bit far out. Their business model is an imitation of another company. Stripe,i think. Anyway,they growing nd getting somewhere and at least providing employmnt to our fellow ppl.
I thought with d high (to me) entry cost of several million $M, the player space would b small. Many of the players,you mentioned,i'm just hearing for d first time. If theyre rarely visible,what r their chances of survivng to recoup their investmnts!
Nigerians r highly resistant to change. Except the change can boost their ego in some way. It's crass but true. We consume expensive nd fine nd tasteful things because they enhance our self esteem nd boost our status in society but if these elements r lacking,the product can b hard sell.
Cars,iphones,laptops,ipads,houses,jaccuzzis, designer cloths nd shoes , flashy courses-law,accounting,medicine,surgeon- sell.
Books, software, non flasy courses- dont sell.

Forget the entry cost and all that. You read the news recently and in quotes where an ex-first lady reportedly pocketed up to a billion Naira for personal use. Well, we are not far from the truth. There are myriads of other Nigerians who can front such cash if asked to. Now a select group of these "people" would be ready to invest in your million-dollar idea, if only you can reach out to them. That is why we have lots of these processors that never saw the light of day, after spending hundreds of thousand of dollars; funding from one corrupt politician. Some never got PCI certified and died naturally. Some lasted for a couple of years. And when you add the Nigerian factor, anything can be bought with some "Gandollars"
You had me laughing at "books". To sell books in Nigeria, you have to be a Chinua Achebe . . . or else, you are just a lecturer forcing down your books on your students, lol. Or one Daddy G.O. selling a "Rhapsody of ...... * ( no offence) Even Chinua Achebe, would not have sold past 100 copies, if here were to be here now. With this generation of Instagram-ers. Aaaabeg! what do I know?
let me face my coding "jeje" . . . Speak of the devil, I am even about to do a Paystack integration, *kikikiki*

asalimpo:
Thanks,a lot. You've overdelivered. There is no misunderstanding at all. These things aint beans bro! $$M to get a cert. (that weeds out d boys nd keeps the players small). In other words, paga,paystack etc r just different brands of d same thing.
I'm actually wondering out loud here: When paystack launched,it was hailed as a new thing. They made headlines etc but with this information i get,they were just building another interface to a gateway. Others had done it before. E.g like voguepay. So whatever stood them apart wasnt a result of a technological marvel, more like a strategic marvel. They operated in d competitors blindspots. So their strategic/marketing innovation is what enticed investors (Ycombinator) to invest.
A technologcal edge would b something like what google did to search, bittorrents, linux ,bitcoin, snapchat,to some extent- paypal.

Most payment processors; how much more gateways, that I know of, are never funded solely by one person. It's too much risk to bear. Some launched via fundraising, others launched via investors. Quickteller is far more popular than Paystack, they've got integration at ATMs and USSD support network-wide. Paystack for now, no ATM integration and only GTBank *737* ussd is supported. But they are very good competition.
There are virtually hundreds of payment processors, not forgetting PayArena with its outdated website, but still works at ATMs.
The technological edge would be to launch a product/service that has not been launched before;.
if not, just forget it, you would drown in the competition.
If you create another FaceBook with a special feature, a very special feature that would attract people=; the old FaceBook
would create their own version and marvel not, people would rather stay with the old FaceBook than use you; forgetting the fact
that you gave them the hint. Such is life ! Nowadays, people are resistant to change; much especially in Nigeria.

asalimpo:
thanks for shedding some light on this. Please,dont b offended,i still got more q's.
So, paystack is like a middleman btwn a user and a paymnt processor . They are using a processors api. E.g like interswitch.
They take requests from a user n funnel it to say interswitch much like bulksms providers use an sms gateway.
If so, then,any1 who can pay the gateway providers fees to use their API could open shop nd compete? Right?
If so, then paystack n voguepay r moreless similar. Much like etisalat nd mtn. They're just middlemen to some financial gateway.
Lastly, to use these paymnt ppl, one still needs a local bank account for reconcilation of transactions. Or do they (or does any) act as a deposit holding entity so that one can spend/withdraw his money without the endpoint of a traditional brick nd mortar bank account. In otherwords,one can bypass traditional bnks as is d case with paypal,bitcoin etc.
If the above is true, then it would mean,that one could open a webshop,offer goods etc,get deposits into his account (paystack/voguepay etc) and not need to link it to a local bnk account! Then how would one withdraw his cash? Do they offer special atm cards or could one hav the option of transferring the money to a local atm card which he can withdraw?
What about entities like quickteller nd paga? What r they compared to these other folks?
#Lots of questions dude. Bear with me. I'm curious

Ah, too many questions I don't even know where to start from. Paystack is the processor (the middle man who helps you knock on the gate, so to speak, the payment gateway, takes it from there and knocks on the doors of your bank). The bank responds and informs the gateway, the gateways transmits the data to the processor (who processes the payment). You get paid or get debited. depending on if you are the buyer or seller. In this case, Paystack is the processor much like VoguePay, Pay Attitude, PayU, PayPal, Quickteller, Paga. They are all processors.
The gateway in this case would be InterSwitch; at least in the Nigerian setting.
I know PayPal offers you a debit card, so you can spend straight out of your paypal balance, but you would still be needing a credit/debit card to verify your paypal account, and to get a credit or debit card, you need a bank account. There is also a limit to how much you can spend via card withdrawals, plus hefty charges as against using a traditional bank account. So to answer that part, you will be needing a "brick and mortar" bank account where payments get deposited to at your request. The processor accepts the payment in their collections account and at your request, you can withdraw to your bank account, subject to your online balance with the processor.
Anybody can set up a processor, even so a Payment gateway. At least in Nigeria, you would be needing a licence with the CBN (central bank of Nigeria), clearance from the anti-fraud department (money laundering issues) and worse off PCI DSS certification (Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard) and a very good team of lawyers. Because if your customers, dont get payments on time, its a lawsuit, Or if their funds get missing or get hacked by way of credit card theft, you will be sued. In short, prepare for lawsuits all the time.
The PCI certification is to make sure your company and its software package are capable of handling people's money securely. So
you will be subjected to rigorous audits. And yes, it costs a lot of money, running up to a million dollars for the total package but nothing that can't be done.
Am i forgetting anything?

asalimpo:
@Empressabie
Your reply is too brief to b of any good. Expatiate more.

So what does it do? How can it b of use to me? Can i putup a site and thru them i get money into my bank account?
Much like paypal? Thanks

@makavele
what's d difference btwn a paymnt gateway nd a paymnt processor? Help me with d above q also. Thanks

The payment gateway actually transmits the data to the processor to continue the life cycle of the transaction.
Yes, the processor is very much like PayPal, no difference except for the fact you cannot transfer funds between users like Paypal; but supports every other facet of PayPal

Empressabbie:
It's a payment gateway

Payment processor NOT gateway

By the way, there is a documentatiom for the basic

boilerplates. How you customize it is now up to you.

SilverG33k:
Na jokers just full this thread

eBook programmers; lol

One even said he is "probably" the best on Nairaland.

Well, probably, lol!

^ Give a day or two; then you can escalate.

modestbrowser:
Thank u so much.
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Picture proves it . .
You have to keep calm and learn
Not talk like a woman
When I get lucky I'll meet the real mark
You talk to to much to be a man
Check your nairaland now I just quoted you now
No see I'm o ly talking cox u said I didn't do what I did
with my makavele handle

emperor00:
Please I need for MB E240 4matic

Ppst VIN and area that needs help.

daverebranded:
lol, downloaded it for about 22gb and upgraded to the latest 15.9 release with extra 10gb.. more than 30gb bro. OP get a fast 4g connection and buy data

take note, i said *core program*