₦airaland Forum

This is not funny at all considering it has become a normal practice for federal owned sites considering the amounts being paid to design these sites. Suspended due to non payment of hosting fees, the admins need to be booked!

Omzie: Hi,
Please i need help on this issue. I want to create a site that would enable people to login and make posts and comments. How do i go about it cuz m very good in html and css and m jst starting with javascript. Thanks

Try learning php and mysql as well

Seems to me you are trying to create an investment portfolio guide for like say forex. Using you initial estimates of doubling every year,

If you start with $200 dollars, Then
after 1 year(s), you will have $400
after 2 year(s), you will have $800
after 3 year(s), you will have $1600
after 4 year(s), you will have $3200
after 5 year(s), you will have $6400
after 6 year(s), you will have $12800
after 7 year(s), you will have $25600
after 8 year(s), you will have $51200
after 9 year(s), you will have $102400
after 10 year(s), you will have $204800...

Try this,

<?php
echo "<center>";

$maxyears = 12; //just edit the number of years for your drop down menu
echo "<p>
<form method=post action=''><table border=0>
<tr><td align=right>Input your starting capital $</td><td><input type=text name=initial_balance></td></tr>
<tr><td>Number of years to run</td><td><select name=max_years>";
for($i=1;$i<=$maxyears;$i++){
echo "<option value=".$i.">".$i."</option>";
}
echo "
</select><input type=submit name=submit value=Calculate!></td></tr>
</table></form>
";


If(isset($_POST['submit']))
{
If(empty($_POST['initial_balance'])){
echo "<font color=red><b>Initial Balance</b> Field must not be empty</font>";exit;}
if(!preg_match("/^[0-9]/", $_POST['initial_balance'])){
echo "<font color=red>Invalid <b>Initial Balance</b> Format</font>";exit;
}
// comment out the two lines below to use tabular format
echo "If you start with <b>$".$_POST['initial_balance']."</b>, then<br>";
echo "<table border=0><tr><td>";

// remove the two comments below to use in tabular format
//echo "<table border=1>";
//echo "<tr><td><b>No of Years</b></td><td><b>Returns</b></td></tr>";

for($i=1;$i<=$_POST['max_years'];$i++){
// comment out line below to use tabular format
output($i,$_POST['initial_balance']);

// remove comments below to use in tabular format
//echo "<tr align=center><td>".$i."</td><td>$".($_POST['initial_balance']*pow(2,$i))."</td></tr>";
}
// remove comments below to use in tabular format
//echo "</table>";

// comment out line below to use tabular format
echo "</td></tr></table>";exit;

}

function output($num,$balance){
if($num>1){$time="years";}else{$time="year";}
echo "after <b>".$num."</b> ".$time.", you will have <b>$".$balance*pow(2,$num)."</b><br>";
}
echo "</center>";
?>

It’s easy to find the cause of the 500 error, if you use CPanel, open error logs and look for the the line with the URL you meet the error, it will explain to you itself why the error happens and you can solve it then.

access your file manager on cpanel, click on your .htaccess file in public_html folder and then click on code editor.

Input this code after the last line or edit it if it already exists

ErrorDocument 404 /404file.html

Click save

so create your 404file.html (could also be .php or otherwise meaning let the file you want to use as your error page be the one in the code above, you could use your index.html file sef) and upload to public_html folder.

Lemme know the results

access your file manager on cpanel, click on your .htaccess file in public_html folder and then click on code editor.

Input this code after the last line or edit it if it already exists

ErrorDocument 404 /404file.html

Click Save

so create your 404file.html (could also be .php or otherwise meaning let the file you want to use as your error page be the one in the code above, you could use your index.html file sef) and upload to public_html folder.

Lemme know the results

I apologise for shifting focus off topic for over a week.

@topic

Expantiating on the points listed before

Workspace

- A laptop with charger (if possible get a surge protector)
- A power extension
- A Mouse
- Bank Token (for internet transactions)
- A Mastercard or Visa powered ATM card
- A Internet Modem
- A shuttle bag (not the laptop bag to keep out the popo from causing yoyo)
(I might edit the list above just in case I missed something out)

Missing out any one on this list could have you paying in more cash or time.

Starting up in a country like Nigeria means you have to be smart in getting a lot done with available limited resources. You might cut corners in this regard by associating with a

- Cybercafe to let you use power for free/being a once in a while paying customer (This applies to if power suply is really bad in your area and cost of fuel would really eat into your funds)

- Business outlets that have regular power supply, depending on your level of affiliation to the owners you might need to help them out with a little tip once in a while or not at all.

- Family and friends, you might need to step up on your interpersonal relationships to get better access and don't be looked at as a leech

- Doing a collabo with the money bag (don't make unrealistic promises or probably none at all) who might finance your complete web project.

Your Goal

To be continued ...

72hrs later and Glo is yet to reply me hence my conviction that the phone hang up was certainly intentional. Meanwhile NCC has decided to wade into the matter as regards heir response on facebook

Good morning Akinrinola. Your report is very detailed, concise and well researched. Very very commendable. However, your phone number is not included and this is needed to facilitate investigation. Upon receipt of your number, your complaint will be forwarded to the appropriate department.

I have replied and am currently waiting the next step. In the meantime who else got subscribed for the glo scams? Don't tell me it was a shellfish seller. lol

lordhugo: .....AND THE ONLY 'STOCKS' THE POOR WOMAN KNOWS IS STOCKFISH

ROTFLOL

I was just off a call with a customer care receptionist for glo on line 121 and it was quite obvious that globacom had prepared a well devised scheme to defraud customers of call credits via unsubscribed-for alerts subscriptions.

Who in their right minds would subscribe for STOCKS alert when they have proper internet access to see the real deal themselves? For about a month throughout August I kept on getting this annoying text message

Dear Subscriber, STOCK MARKET ALERT5 is offered to you free till 1 Sep and will be charge N25/Week. If not interested simply dial *335*99# to unsubscribe.

How do you unsubscribe from something you did not subscribe to in the first place?
How did I get on the mailing list? Certainly glo my service provider added me somehow to make me dole out funds to them weekly.
Lastly I wasn't even getting any free alerts for that matter.

As the last weekend in August was coming to an end I thought of contacting customer services to lodge a complaint.

1. To have me get some rest from one more annoying promo message amidst the many they send daily.
2. To have them delist me just in case it was no joke. I have better things to do with my N25 weekly than the advertised STOCKS alerts.

So I did and I was told to dial *335*33# and follow the screen prompts. I did and on getting to the STOCKS page, selected 'deactivate' and was glad to get the message that 'I was not even subscribed to the alert!'. The notifications didn't stop but I was rest assured that it was propably a glitch or a tempt/trick to actually place myself on the actual list if I dialed the *335*99# the message recommended and nothing would happen if I did nothing. All is well that ends well I thought but just at exactly 4:56 on Tuesday 3 Sept today I got another alert but this time ...

WAPIC leads the 28gainers against 32losers topped by AIRSERVICE as market breadth closed with the bears amid continued sell down activities

A real STOCKS alert!

Since I did not know what my previous balance was (funny that a few days now I was no more seeing the notification of used credits since a few days ago), I did not
know if I was charged yet or not and then decided to place another call to 121 right away. 4:56 instantly I made the call but receptionist did not pick it up till after
5:04. The call ended 5:28

The call

I asked for the Customer Request ID which NCC would ask for just in case issues got out of hand and I needed to contact them but till the call ended, I was not given (I once got that for a visafone call so it is not as if the receptionist did not have access to it and she did not say she didn't but kept trying to keep me from asking for it).

I asked why my credit notifications were suddenly turned off but was told I needed to text 'ACN ON' to 3036 to activate it as that was the procees of which I said I was getting the notifications before now till it stopped a few days ago. I then asked 'if Globacom Nigeria made it a requirement for one to requet to turn on the notifications before one begins to get it and I got no answer(she had said that was how she did hers but NCC has in the past made it a compulsory requirement for all network operators to incorporate it as a practice).

Ques: How can a dissatisfied Consumer lodge a complaint?
1. Ans: A dissatisfied Consumer can lodge a complaint by: Completing a Consumer Complaint Form (CCF) which can be obtained from the NCC offices listed below. The Consumer Complaint Form (CCF) must be completed and sent to the NCC.
OR
2. Writing a letter to NCC which must be either hand or type written, legible, concise and no more than two (2) A4 pages. The letter must be signed by the dissatisfied Consumer.
OR
3. Calling the NCC Contact Centre toll free number on 0-800-CALL-NCC (0-800-2255-622) to lodge your complaint providing ticket number given by operator.

http://consumer.ncc.gov.ng/publication/fact/procedure.pdf

I proceeded to asking about the STOCKS alerts issue and said she was going to transfer the call to someone else (I guessed a supervisor named Mr Kehinde) who would
answer my questions as well as give me the Customer Request ID. The call transfer was made and 'hello hello', the line dropped.

Was it a coincidence that my credit notifications would go like that just when a shady subscription would come in. I had in the past learned not to use any of glo's alerts whet I subscribed for their LOVE alerts in the past and was billed twice for it(N90 instead of N45 fortnightly) and they disclaimed the accusation before I cancelled the subscription twice! Meaning they added my number to an already existing subscription I had so I could be billed twice which make me believe this is also the case with this STOCKS issue.

A one time incidence? See this story I just got from NCC's wall on facebook, a September 1 report

Dear sir,
My names are Adebayo Mustapha and my telephone number is 08056312729 and i wish to bring to your attention the fraudulent behaviour of glo in respect to my line. My complaint is based on several things that has happened over the years I have been on the network and I stayed this long because I believe that glo is our own being a Nigerian company but I will limit my complain to two things that happened recently:

1- I loaded N100 credit on 18th of July and I was suppose to dial a certain code to get N260 to call,text and surf but to my dismay the N100 was deducted without getting my N260 as glo claims which caused me to call their customer care and they promised to rectify it within 48hrs but never did so even after I got an sms from them on the 19th of July,2013.RefDear Customer, Your Freedom Pack not received Ref: GLO1958920419 is expected to be resolved within 48 HRS. Rule your world!),I also took the liberty of going to their office in opebi on the 31st of July,2013 and still nothing happened Ref2Thanks for visiting our gloworld shop. Rule your world!)I got this sms after the visit.

1-The illegal deduction of N30 every week for news update that I never subscribe for,even when I sent sms's and called customer care several times to stop the services to me.
I will want you to look into this complaints of mine and get me justice.

Regards
Adebayo Mustapha
08056312729

https://www.facebook.com/nigerian.communications.commission?sk=wall&filter=2

Who else?
How about disabling all these annoying promo ads?

I will give updates to this thread in case NCC decides to wade into this issue after mailing them or GLO calls if the hangup was not intentional.

Cheers and protect your call credit.

Caramba!

BTW same way we know it is not possible to win an argument with your computer, it is never possible to win a duel with the hatchet men in this case. Let's just continue with the topic. Tomorrow after church service then. Jaana

P.S Awaiting your response on the NSE Api thread.

dhtml: And i got banned yet again!

ROTFLOL

*dhtml:
World bank api keh? I be like world programmer ni? Jo o.

yes you are

in forex we have charts to show full historical data of how currencies have been performing. extend the performance data (you did not specify for how long but i guessed one day) to more than one day events to show how far profitability of coy stocks.

dhtml: The interesting thing is that *dhtml cannot post anything on webmasters board only ...

just look past the mod's lapses and be the bigger man else you might end up like others looking for a bone to pick with seun always.

will add a few requests of my own soon.

@topic Analysing profitability of the web arena

It is to be noted that all businesses are in reality not so different from one another in mode of operation.

e.g

- A businessman (in the common use of the word) buys and sells while hoping to make profit could gain or lose.

- A suckling baby sells cries and tears to purchase nature's juice (talk about an unwanted commodity making sales)

- A politician selling promises of a better tomorrow to buy votes

- A cranky lover boy promising heaven and earth to purchase affection

- An orator selling his speech to buy convictions

From the above all business transactions require a buying and a selling. Atimes transactions have sub-transactions. Sellable items could be physical such as money or non physical such as feelings or time. All businesses are out to buy something in return. The person who has a perceived higher return on sales over expenditure is said to be making profits.

Understanding the above explains why some are content with just a little which is their projected return as all projections might not totally be cash.

I was talking to a colleague today and we were talking about obstacles that meet the regular joe programmer in a country such as Nigeria; Power(inavailability or costs of running generator sets), internet access (poor or costly) and a condusive environment (talk about police issues for just moving a laptop across the streets)and at the same time needs to do basic things like feeding, paying bills, e.t.c but Fame and Glory Highway has only addresses for successful people and not me-too-wanted-to-do-it-o crew.

So, getting it right on yet a low budjet from the onset is required so that stress on the long run does not pull out ones's interest and desires/dreams.

Workspace
- A laptop with charger (if possible get a surge protector)
- A power extension
- A Mouse
- Bank Token (for internet transactions)
- A Mastercard or Visa powered ATM card
- A Internet Modem
- A shuttle bag (not the laptop bag to keep out the popo from causing yoyo)
(I might edit the list above just in case I missed something out)

Missing out any one on this list could have you paying in more cash or time.

Google has everything, at least nearly everything
Whatever it may be someone somewhere has done it before. All you just need do is run the web oracle and presto you have hints on how they started without you churning out wasted funds or time to gain a lesson learnt the hard way. Also, keep Wikipedia in close touch.

Your Goal
Goals are a dime a dozen as many are not even original. Several 'I want a site like Nairaland', 'I want a social networking site like Facebook' and so on as dreamers keep on trying to copycat someone else's original dream. Try being original. Get a problem people have and possibly even yourself have and try solving it.

Marketing Model - Letting people know you do the things you do
Social Networking/marketing is a model way of letting people who originally interact with themselves pass on the message via such means about your site/product/stuff.
A lot others exist; affiliate, viral, email, seo and abbl.

Profitability - Free is a nice word but it doesn't pay the bills
Free services like Nairaland and Facebook allow members a nice environment of human interaction and at the same time without making it start akwardly in their faces present advert spaces among other things as a way of making sales. More on this later.

Protecting your investment
A regular thing to have in mind and so incorporating it as a practice like in when you are coding your site would make it easir to do as time goes on. Other things like not letting your domain or hosting services lapse before renewing, keeping undesired elements like bots in check and probably doing what a modearator did in censorship of posts above including mine as well. Thing is you cannot allow dogs to poo in your living room else with time your friends and visitors will have new friends elsewhere. It's your dream/livelihood so protect with all that is you and be wise doing so.

It's night, gotta sleep. Will be back with the rest later.

Cheers

[quote author=]Yeah, the censorship rubbish, plus *dhtml seem to have been banned.[/quote]Pele dear.
Depends on what is seen as threathening to his pot of soup. BTW mods are actually in charge of most of these things. NL is Seun's so live with it. Hoping to see more webstars of Africa. Open market destroys monopoly on the short run.

IMHO I believe title should have read 'What should seun do/what is seun doing to improve on nairaland' and then opinions would have come in like webdezzi's.

P.S

teemy: --

*dhtml:
--

Censorship ba?

--

But honestly @dtop10 how would you feel if you know a guy that is 24-7 wracking his brains out on projects and a newcomer comes on stage and the very first thing, I mean the very first thing is calling him lazy bones (actually Seun is chubbyish from his profile pix)? and to cap it up calls himself Voltron - defender of the universe as if in taunt.

Objectively I thought you would have taken up the sarcasm as a chance to really prove what you have been doing is real stuff. I do not know the guy personally but heck! he's got something between his two ears. So I repeat

LET NO ONE ELSE INTENTIONALLY GIVE SEUN A RUDE SLAP (of course if he deserves it I will join you put jara) WHILE I AM AROUND!

Cheers

You can buy custom script from hotscripts.com.

With time I hope you will continue with your training sha to avoid losing money in cases where you would otherwise have saved same.

@dtop10 okai ri (welcome back)

@topic go through seun's past posts of like a month ago and you will observe Seun has been stocking up for a bigger launch of grabbing more of the webspace pie. Guys are not sleeping.

*dhtml:
What has op contributed to the web community since ALLEGED(a nairaland slang) inception?

He just joined NL this afternoon, with time he will reveal his stuff that made him one of 'the top 10' and I am sure he will not fumble. Abi dtop10?

So *dhtml just a little more patience.

ze is no way at ziz point now zat you can avoid ze coding.

Just find a coder at this point and get ready to pay for good service as if you try to freeload your time might just be wasted

It’s easy to find the cause of the 500 error, if you use CPanel, open error logs and look for the the line with the URL you meet the error, it will explain to you itself why the error happens and you can solve it then. Since you also own hostmandate.com maybe a simple reset could do the trick at a go provided you have a backup first. Avoid tampering with your site settings also.

P.S the domain name search engine listing email is a scam attempted to delilah you. Just ignore it any time you see it again

as graphicsplus once said 'guys are not sleeping'

please say more

Okponee: Hi friends, pls help me do justice to this issue:

pending when i get back on my pc give the name of your registrar and host. also what has been their response so far.

velo10: Proudly at your service boss....

noted. maybe someday. cheers

i believe the name is Karrox

GraphicsPlus: And who says someone cannot own axis and security?

then they should pick straws. lol. BTW the axissecurity.com guy's cv is well cooked and would be expensive. not sure if he would be the one i hire for my site

worldbest: Screw you After I support you, you still tell am thank you. No let me catch you

that is graphicsplus for you on honest but also hard truths. just his style. nairaland would be boring if we were all the same