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Could have search for help on google but I do not know how best I should construct my search 'parameters', I am sure your guys here will help me sha:

currently running XAMPP(with PHP and MySQL servers) on my dev environ. Sometimes, it's easier to design a DB with MS Access compared to MySQL Workbench.
Is there anyway I can connect to MS Acess DB using PHP via XAMPP? Or connect to MySQL/MS free Dev SQL server via XAMPP(php)? Is this even possible or I need another app to bridge the gap? Thank you..

Cc: dhtml, fincoApps and other HWs in this section.

Do that and make the worst mistake of your life!
I bet you haven't met pretenders, they'd pretend till you end up in marriage..
Bro, there's no proper way to find the right lad for marriage these end times..

If you're a true Christian, my advice is for you to pray and fast personally about it. You don't need any pastor or soothsayer to help as long you're a true child of God. Ask God to reveal your wife to you. Pray in your closet. Fast and let not a soul know. Don't not ask for any sign. Just ask God to reveal your true wife to you. Marriage can either make or mar you as a man. Don't go for a girl because she's very religious or her father is a pastor or she sings like an angel or she has the anointing of Elijah or your great-grand granpa can vouch for her or she's beautiful or she's rich/gainfully employed e.t.c. Seek God's direction and you'l be happy man for the rest of your life. DON'T HURRIEDLY ENTER a LIFE-TIME BOUNDAGE, pray and wait on God for a lifetime BLISS!

PDF files do the magic for me. I still consider my self a beginner sha, with a little of documentation and web resources, esp w3schools.

I create problems for myself or try to solve some existing one, or try to improve a pre-existing code. When the need comes to learn some advanced stuffs, I do. When I see some codes pros write and I understand it or can make it better, I rank myself higher.

IGNAZ almost made me cry..!

Oga, create problems for yourself and solve them..

I know PHP. I created a quiz program, a die game(I called Gambler's Ruin - name after a model in Statistics), a created a mini-PHPMyAdmin with my own DB-library, I created a class that can build web-templates on the go e.t.c, Even now, I am working on a social web app like FB that can do FB event basics(create posts, like, comment, replies, report e.t.c., a mini-blog will even be integrated into it where everyone on friends' list have a general interaction)..

You might think you know how to code just because you know how to use lots of functions offhand, when you go practical you'l find out you know nothing! Been there.. Now, I am better.

Lemme give you a simple tasks:

-write a program that rolls a die ONCE(value of the die is hidden), then askes the user to guess the value of die.. The program keeps asking the user the die value as long as the value entered by the user is wrong. The program will also print the number of times it takes a user to make a right guess if it took more than a single turn to get right. Once the user gets it right, the program resets; i.e., the die is rolled again...
Tip: you needa manage persistence. A die has 6 faces, generate a random number between ..... ..

Task Two:
create a quiz game. The web app/app will have an admin panel to create and modify quizes. Security comes into mind.

A user logs in, select any of the existing quizes and takes it. The prgram grades the quiz, records it (together with the user's info, of course!).. The program tells the user if he beats the average score or if he scores below the average score, and if he beats the high score! If he beats the high score, he becomes the record holder!
Average score does not exist if no user took a particular quiz, i.e., average score is always calculated at run-time (for a particualr quiz).

Hint: you need to manage data, choose JSON/XML and txt/csv format, don't do DBMS for now. You'l need more than one script to handle this, except you wanna nest IF's statements till you enter into the chasm of confusion.

Task 3:
Create a gambling game.
Program askes for the number of player at start of games(no more than 4 players a time, for ease), the amount of initial cash, and names of the players for identification.

Each player has a turn to roll a die, looses money if a condition is met or gains cash otherwise(say wins N3 if roll is greater than 4, looses N3 if it is less, just choose your own conditions)..

The game can only be ended if the individual number of rolls of die for each player is equal, i.e., a 'end game' button appears if

rolls of player one = rolls of player two = rolls = ... = rolls of player n..
If game is ended, prints game summary and all info is deleted to start a new game afresh..

Hint: you needa create class, an instance of the class is created for each player at run-time.

I am no pro, still learning the hard way, a rookiest rookie I am.. Have fun and give your brain headaches.

Use to think 'connection' between Lalasticlala and animal(esp threads on snake) is always exergerrated by Nlers, till I found a proof.

Lala should be a girl na?

I learned a thing or two from what codeHouse chipped in.
I love what you did, sweet.

I know those icons you used though. I just hope you have the licence to use them if you're having it in mind to monitize your app as a solution, do you?

obinoral1179:
You are hereby invited for an interview as a Store keeper with LASOL NIG ENT on Wed 31st Aug 2016, Time 8.30am @ 1 Taylor road Gcappa Iddo Lagos. Please anybody with me and any info about what to expect will be appreciated.

yes, a lot.

You'd be asked some question concerning programming, data analysis and finance...

You'd be asked if you'v worked in a bank before..

Do you have teaching experience? 'twill come in handy..

Can you sweep, mop and wash? Twill give you head-start...

Are you tall and handsome? Advantage for you..

Lastly, are you a sharp guy? Please, just be..

Thank me later..

Good work. Repeated call to the same program...

How about the next/previous styled pagination?

“We will also ensure that the project succeeds,” he added

i pray o. Just a matter of time before politicians hijack job slots, seeks loans for their 'small' companies.. E.t.c

Op you'd be a be fool if you seek a sooth-sayer or another 'man-of-God'...
F.o.o.lish people everywhere!

Are you not a Christian?
So, is God hiding from you? Do you need a phophet to guide you life? No!

Fast and pray by yourself. Let not a single soul know it, NOT even your girl. Ask God to reveal her to you, simple....
I mean fast, I mean like the fast your break with only fruits in the evening, at sun-down; 7 pm specifically. 7 days. You will not die.

Don't take this issue of marriage with levity, be serious. The pastor might be right, or wrong! Ask God to reveal her to you. Read the book of Daniel, Mark 4. Tell no one, and don't let people notice it.

When Nebuchadnezzar had a dream and wanted to kill all the magicians because they could not tell him what he dreamt about and its interpretation, Daniel saved them all when God reveal the secrets to him.. Key into verses that deals with revealing of secrets. Same with Mark 4. Secrets' verses.

Wake at 12 mid-night and pray for 30 mins/1 hr. You will get your answer before 7 days is over or just after it. I just hope you are true child of God, because if you're not, na hunger strike you just dey suffer yourself o. Stay away from every form of sin too.

jimklef:
i think u shud learn php first b4 goin to python, learn PHP is on of d best language 4 web deveelpment, u hav to learn php then SQL b4 goin into high level languages lyk python nd java, HTML
CSS
javascipt
xml
mySql
ajax
php
python
java, if u finish learning java, c++ nd C, C# will b very simple 4 u, thank u

means I am on the right path then..

Can somebody recommended a book in javascript that can take someone from rookie to pro? Something simple, extensive and contains real/practical examples?

Thanks.

No recommended book(s) on python on this thread? We need one that can take on from beginner to pro joh.

pussypounder:
If you own a blog, do your admin just get info of your users or you get there login and passwords when they login?

funny question. Every org has got its hierarchy(did I get this spelling right?!). Imagine if everybody is a manager in a bank? Abi make clearners get same rights school with teacher? Nada.

Everybosy in NL is first a user. Seun is like NL god. After him are the super mods, then the mods, then users like us. So only Seun should have the right(or any other admin he gives the right) to check your personal details. Like your email address, password e.t.c.

If you use an andriod phone(with OS 5 and above), you know as the owner of the phone, you can create a 'guest' account for guests with limited access to what ever you choose for them(files, photos, apps e.t.c.).. You have an account on your PC. You IT admin create an account for your work PC.. Get it??

So, we users here on NL can only create topics, comment, quote, like, report, e.t.c.

Mods are users that can ban other users, determine which topics are to go the trash can.. The can hide/unhide comments. They also with basic users' priviledges like us.

Supermods are super. They can move topics to the home page.

Seun is the NL god. He can make can make your a mod, or supermod! He is everything on NL..

So, if you own a blog, you become Seun or Linda Ikeji.

Anyone with high IQ will do well starting with any language. The most important thing in programming is your logic skills.

Infact, I recommend that anyone who wants to learn programing should go study flowchats in secondary school futhermaths/com sci. I didn't'ake flowchats seriously back then in sec school and in my first year at the university, but now I know its craziness!

When I started, had a prob organizing my thoughts. Now, before i even type a line of code, I would ave already map my code out, get a mental picture of the problem my code's gonna solve, and my data structures.

Logic skills is the most important thing. You have gotta have the brain power. You are as good as your IQ level.

Besides, programming is a life time thing. It's gonna be part of you. It has gotta be the air you breathe. Many people wil fall off from the path of programming as the years goes by.



Those crazy programmers at google/MS/Apple have become codes.

Have you even looked at google maps and ever wondered what the folks that fleshed out the codes were thinking?!
Have ever tried to imagine their mind state?

Do you know the idea behind UI designs of these great companies?
Compare MS, google and apple sites and try to imgine the genuity behind the UI designs, gosh!

Have you ever wondered about the idea in the connection between digital tech and hardware?

Have you ever tried to imagine what Einstein was imagining, why he Imagined it, situation he imagined it when He wrote lwas the revolutionalized physics? Have you ever tried to resimulate such?

Coding should be your blood, else you will never make a mark like Bill, Steve, Mark, google boys did!

Gosh, think about the idea behind twitter!

danidee10:
Definitely python.

General purpose scripting language

Awesome community

A lot of good frameworks to choose from

Plays nicely with other languages

Can be used for a lot of things...mobile apps, Web apps, desktop apps, machine learning, data science, scripting for sysadmins....just name it

really, I'l investigate...

talk2hb1:
Paul Deitel, Harvey Deitel. Father and Son

thanks.

talk2hb1:
Local Storage and co,
You can create local database on clients machine using sqlite

okay, I'll investigate that. Thanks.

dhtml18:
^^^that was what I did, and it worked wonders.

I came accross a html5 book and saw some cool code. Does javascript now have some server-side capabilities? Like connect to MySQL db, e.t.c...?

talk2hb1:
Before going further, hope you undestand OOP concept of php?
If No, I'll suggest you go learn Java Sharperly.
You will be wondering, why Java?
You can easily master oop of any language if you can easily master java oop concept. Learn with Deitel Deitel Java how to program (1000+ pages and its a fat book) you will learn java, oop concept,+ computer science.
Then go back to complete your PHP oop
Thank me later

thanks for the reply. The book's 'Deitel Deitel how to program'? I just wondering because of the repitition of name.. Thanks.

dhtml18:
What makes a programmer great is not language. Take me for example, I write awesome codes in so many languages. Even if i migrate to Ruby this month, in the next couple of months, once i have gotten a good hang of it, I will still write awesome stuffs that some existing Ruby programmers will wow at.
What this means is that, a programming language is just a tool. What is most important is the ability of the programmer to think logically and use the tools to create great stuffs.

we are on the same page then. This has always been my mantra..

dhtml18:
Err, i dont have anything to say yet. But you the quality of your work does not depend on PHP.

i don't understand.

Tochaigh:
If you are doing web backend, learn ruby. That's all!

I am not a guru.

Ruby? Okay.
Recommend any extremely good pdf book that'll take me from Rookie to Pro..

Hehehehe.. Clever but it's quite obvious.
The table above does not represent the true state of the transaction na - albeit logically.

You are just adding the remainder of your cash at hand anytime a transaction occurs(demand is met).

The right calculation is adding all expenditure and equating it to total amount you had on you before buying anything:

total amount = exp1 + exp2 + exp3 + ... + remainder(if any).

What you did up there is like getting the total numbers of remainders when converting a number to base 2, then multiplying it by 2 thinking it will equate(everytime) to the original number being converted.

Okay, been learning PHP for some months and I can say I am getting better at it, logically. My design sulks because I design ike a programmer. Hehehehehe.. I am always more concerend about the logical aspect since I can always outsource the design aspect in the nearest future when I become a guru like y'all, better than those at MS, google self....

Well, I created a quiz web app; also did something like a mini phpMyAdmin, e.t.c... Even now, I am working on an app that works like FB, next is a NL-wannabe app.
Still sulk at php security/working with the superglobals and header informations..

... I am just layin a logically foundation for my skills before I go full blown into enterprise dev.

With the way some guys bash some languages, PHP for example, one would think you're learning a language that expired in 1904!

I just need experienced advice on my learnin curve. Most of you guys have expensive experience, some have had their minds well forged in the arena of codes, some of you guys have become Morpheous, some even claim to be Leo(remember the movie 'Matrix'?)... Hehehehe

i need advice on how to go about my learning curve. Which language to concentrate on and which shouldn't pay to much attention on e.t.c.

I am thinking like: after getting to level 6 of 10 on PHP(I rate myself at 4/10. You think that's too low, wait till you see my works on PHP, you'd suprise at my logic skills), I can introduce another language to my library and keep learning them both.
May be python, java or c#.. I don't even know which to start with, whether c# or java..

Make suggestions for me on my learning curve, and don't tell me to go start with a framework of a lang, that's bad foundation. I once regected an internship opportunity when the dude told me I was gonna start with zend framework, PHP, after scoring me 9/10 on php/mySql test.

Thank you!

Thanks, A7....

dhtml18:
Your question is not even specific at all. One, you did not even mention the language, i just assumed PHP. Plus, your other question about basic examples is unclear. You need to tell us the language, plus you need to have done some research yourself.

I am not the type of dude that delights in copying and pasting stuffs from google, and now shining, no. I prefer being practical, if there is something you can easily read somewhere online that will solve your problem, i will rather point you to it.

bros, na PHP na. See the topic eh.

romme2u:
http is a stateless protocol hence you cannot link a visitor of any page to the previous one he/she has visited on your site. different programming languages have different mechanism to track visitors from page to page as they browse through the site.

in php there are several ways of tracking users and preserving their data throughout their log in session but the most common and the most used is session.

session is a php extension which enables you to track log in users and store data associated with them.

in php, the mechanism is simple; when a user logs in, you call session_start() function which creates a session id and initializes the session superglobals which is an array where you can store the users' data. you can now access the users' data (of course you have to push the users data manually to the array) from that array in all your pages.

naturally php sessions expire at a specific time (i cannot remember the duration but you can set it manually) and sessions data are stored on files for faster access instead of database (you can also change this). php will store the session id as browser cookies or pass it from one url to another depending on myriads of conditions.

as a beginner, you need to undergo this ritual of knowing what is happening under the hood to hone your skill and know the features offered by your language of choice but as you get better this becomes a mundane activity and you will get authentication/authorization libraries that will handle this transparently.

this is not comprehensive, it is just to tell you of the capabilities of php in handling data from request to request and link it to a particular user.
you can head over to php.net and get all the info you need. just download the documentation in chm format and you will get all the explanation on session usage. don't forget to compare it with the user contributed notes on the site.

thanks..

I am not seeing any help in the examples here, you are just setting up session variables to do what exactly? How's the session variable (holding the log-in status/user data) passed from program to program or what's the mechanism(code) for the individual programs loading up the session var, e.t.c...

As a rookie, I do this my passing the username (in an input element) from page to page and that is really tiring and ineffective and not dynamic.

Say I have 4 seperate pages on my menu system: home, about us, services, blog.

To view blog posts on the blog page, the user needs to be logged-in or else you create an account. Now, after login-in via the blog page, and you click 'home' menu from here, username data might get lost.

I was just wondering how this is done; keeping users logged in forever on your site( as long as they want to), even through out their activities on the site, as the switch from page to page.. Even the way it shows your log-in status(username or so) all through your time on the site, and how the browser automatically logs one in..

Can someone give a basic example...

Thanks.

dancewith:
In simple terms, it means all foreign currency loans (Loans Nigerian banks had disbursed in foreign currency, usually called foreign currency lines) must now be classified as performing or non performing. In the non performing category, these are further classified as doubtful or lost. Each classification of the non performing loans requires the banks to set aside a portion of their income or capital to cover for the possibility that the loan may not be repaid (called provisioning). Doubtful or lost requires different amounts to be set aside

The only surprise here is that this wasn't being done already because this has been the norm for naira denominated loans

thanks, good boy/girl.

Does anyone have this? I mean the raw XML or JSON file? Just that and nothing else?