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Here's a church website I completed a while ago. Showing both desktop and mobile versions. The website is available at www.gpodministry.org

The site supports sermons upload in back-end, streaming and download in front-end, for both audio and video media.

I posted something here https://www.nairaland.com/1029030/does-anyone-know-how-send#11962311 that works with www.smslive247.com. You can adapt it for use on your site.

Cheers.

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@OP Have you checked their support forums?

What do you mean by 'Hacking'?

Officially 'white hat' hacking is called Penetration Testing. Pen. Testing for short.

It is not illegal for computer professionals like system administrators to learn pen testing to regularly check their system for security holes and backdoors. New Horizons has a 6 months program on that. I think NIIT has too, but I'm not sure.

Yes it is possible on all Windows from XP and above.

For more information post your email address here and I'll get back to you.

Since your application is database powered, you can store the names of the pages in a new table row in your database table.
From line 24 of your code.

if($query){
echo "<tr>";
while($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($query)){
echo "<th width='200' align='center' ><a href='".$row["cat_name"].".html?cat_id=". $row["cat_id"]. "'<b>". $row["type"] . "<img src='images/".$row["cat_image"]."' width='200' height='200' /></a>Price: ".$row["price"]."<br /><b> Quantity:</b> <input name= 'qty' size='5'> <br /><a href=''>add to cart</a></th>";
}
echo "</tr>";
}

Here I replaced the static url 'books.html' with one generated from the value in the category name field 'cat_name' of the database table. I assume the available values here will be books, gadgets and phones.

All you now need to do is create some nice pages, (Why not use use .php?) to process your shopping cart.

Hope this helps a little. Cheers.

Why create a mobile app? Mobile apps are created when the site owner decides he want them, not of necessity. Any right-thinking webmaster today has support for mobile devices and so does not need an app. The app comes in when the site owner wants to make more income through ads, for example or wants to increase the number of users, etc.

That's from the site owner's point of view. How about we, the actual users, consumers as it were of the site? Most internet users today using opera mobile or firefox mobile on their devices visit more than one site at a time using different tabs. But if one were to use a dedicated Nairaland App, he will need to minimize the application to switch to the browser and back all the time which is quite cumbersome.

So if even if such an app is created, I sure wouldn't be downloading it, except to see the design and find bugs in the software.

You've already posted this question before https://www.nairaland.com/1033414/joomladrupal-wordpress-which-use

Why repeating the question? I'll attempt to answer your question below, but you should know we're not playing here.

Undoubtedly either Joomla or Wordpress can be used to create the type of website you are talking about, but not if you don't even know anything about it yet. These applications were not originally designed to do that, so you will find yourself changing code more and more with the complexity of your project.

If you want to create a website like naijalingo.com, you have to be good in a programming language like ASP.net or PHP in addition to the basic HTML, CSS and Javascript. Also you will need a very sound database designer/administrator to design, optimize and maintain the database as it grows in size.

So IMHO can you use Joomla? No. Wordpress? No. But you can still try though. If you insist on trying, go for Joomla because it is more suitable for complex websites. But learn it by creating other websites first to understand how it works and how to customize it to your needs.

Otherwise, you can give the job to programmers and focus on how you can monetize the finished product.

But, I hope you have the cash sha, because, the good NL programmers are expensive. To have an idea what such a web app will cost, start a new topic on it.

I think I've seen [url=http://www.nairaland.com/%2Adhtml]*dhtml[/url] post around Nairaland about his dhtml framework. You can probably see him about that. But why would you want to hide your CMS details? After all it is a CMS, designed for content management and not for developing custom websites.

Uploading a Joomla site from localhost to a web server should be painless, but it is usually not, especially for newbies.

The popular method involves uploading the Joomla site in two parts: the files and the MySQL database.

The files are uploaded with an FTP client to the directory provided by your webhost. For more information about the FTP info of your hosting space, see your web host's FAQs, help, etc. A very popular windows based FTP client is http://filezilla-project.org/download.php . Ensure you upload your files to the /public_html/ sub-directory of your hosting space to make them .

The database is first exported using phpMyAdmin on localhost http://localhost/phpmyadmin in sql of compressed format. Then in your web host cpanel, you open phpMyAdmin and use it to import the database you exported from localhost.

After that, you open config.inc.php file in the root directory of your Joomla installation and edit the database name, user and password values to connect to the database you got from your localhost.

After that you can now access your site by http://yourdomainname.com if you have pointed your nameservers to your web host

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Due to the cumbersome nature of the whole process, some nice guys sat down to create the Akeeba Backup and Extract Joomla component available here http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/access-a-security/site-security/backup/1606.
You install it like any other Joomla component, and then backup your entire site including the database with just a few clicks. The files are compressed into zip files which can be uploaded via ftp. After that, you're just a few clicks from your site being live.

If you have any more questions, post them here and we'll try to help.

Good luck with your website.

@Yawatide thanks for your contribution. I've been waiting for others to contribute, but since it seems as if none is forthcoming, I'll use some of with what you've said.

Our final presentation to the school is this week, but anyone who still wants to contribute is welcome to do so.

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View my portfolio on http://www.naija-web-design.com/portfolio

You can call me on 08080435079

mrkels: More than 80% of internet users in nigeria access the internet with a mobile phone, put that in mind when next you want to design a website okay?

@ mrkels, I'm fully aware of the fact. That's why I am taking the effort to develop the mobile version of the website.

Thank you.

Why not post the entire script or at least a few lines before the offending line 394 so that we can help you better.

Greatdesi: Our pastor asked us to build a DBMS for members of the church. The knowledge I have is from the lectures gotten from our lecturer and it is just QBASIC and FORREAN rhat we have done yet. Please I need assisstance on the best programming language to use and how to go about it. It will not be run from a remote server or uploaded to any host.
Thanks for your assisstance

Well, I assume you only need a database that will only contain personal details of the church members without any other functionality.

okeyxyz: . . . @OP, just use microsoft access and all your problems are solved.

So, why not use a Access? Or better yet go for MySQL.

If you want to use MySQL, you can use phpMyAdmin for easy Create-Read-Update-Delete (CRUD) operations on your data. Just download Wamp server, it contains MysQL ready for use on a Windows machine and comes with phpMyAdmin installed.

I recommend MySQL, because if you ever need to use the data later in a website, you can easily export the database and upload it online. Also MySQL is open source and therefore has wide support and can be integrated into almost any other system.

Why not just use a web application?

To me it suits your purpose and has the widest reach. If you start your development with mobile devices in mind, only one web app is enough and will run on desktop and laptop PCs, Androids, Ipads, and more.

All you need to get started is a PHP framework like yii or Zend. You do the coding for the core application then for the other functionality like user management you mentioned, you can download extensions thereby saving time and development costs.

If your application will not be run on the internet, you can have an in-house server with preferably Linux to serve your app to clients.

Hope this helps a little.

After some deliberation, the website was scaled down to 3 sections with not more than 40 pages.

The school has Nursery/Primary in one location and then secondary schools in two other different locations.

What they want is one website with all necessary features, but each location will have its own section with unique pages like gallery, admissions, staff, announcements,etc.

The admissions pages will be updated with the admissions list once a year while the announcements pages will be updated frequently.

So now you have the features, what's your take on the matter?

Your welcome.

chyzoo4u: A church ministry website with the ability to play videos (not live streaming), users can comment on posts as well. Should be developed with xhtml, css, javascript, php and flash to give it a nice multimedia look.
How much willl such a site cost and the monthly maintenance fee?

You can check this church website that I just finished http://www.gpodministry.org

It features downloadable sermons with online viewing. I just completed the main site this week and I'm currently working on the mobile version. If you need something similar, call me on 08080435079

I've not had time to go through the site, but at first glance, I like what I see.

The list of pictures on the home page is kind of long. Perhaps, you can break it into pages.

Then, as an indication of how interesting a photo is, you can add number of comments of each photo next to the number of views on the listing page.

When I have the time, I'll drop by and do a more thorough analysis.

On one of my websites, I use www.smslive247.com and they provide a good api that I integrated with PHP. I used the HTTP GET request to communicate with their api. For example if a user registers and I want to provide a confirmation that his/her registration was successful, I would use this code below

<?php
if ($user) //Registration successful {

	$message = 'Hello '.$user['name'].', your registration with www.website.com was successful. Then more information here.';
	$message = urlencode($message);
	
	$url = 'http://www.smslive247.com/http/index.aspx?cmd=sendquickmsg&owneremail=xxxxxxx@mail.com&subacct=Bleep&subacctpwd=000000';
	$url .= '&message='.$message.'&sender=Sitename&sendto='.$user['phone'].'&msgtype=0';
	
	if ($f = @fopen($url, "r") { 
		$answer = fgets($f, 255); 
		if (substr($answer, 0, 1) == "+" {  
			//echo "SMS to User was successful.";  
		} else {  
			//echo "an error has occurred: [$answer].";  
		}  
	} else {  
		//echo "Error: URL could not be opened.";  
	}  
}
	?>

For more information, you can check http://new.smslive247.com/developer_api/download/SMSLive247_HTTP.zip

[Edit: I split the $url string for better readability ]

Hope this helps.

^^^^ Thanks for your opinion.

My main reason for asking this is that I usually charge per hour whenever a client needs some work done. But due to what I've heard about this proprietor, I might have some issues with that. And with the monthly thing, will I need to specify a limit to changes that can be requested?

Can anybody who has been in this kind of situation share his/her experiences?

I am processing a job with a big school with a notoriously difficult proprietor. I need the help of the house on some things:

What should I charge for the project (> 50 pages in 5 sections)?

Do I offer a fixed charge per month for maintenance or do I bill them per hour whenever they need to get a job done?

And what is a reasonable amount to charge for either of the above (maintenance)?

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Taiw: just got d solution nw.

So what did you use?

3direct: How much?

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