nadeemshafi9 Posted June 21, 2007 Share Posted June 21, 2007 Hello Guys I just finished university, i havent got my grades yet but they look good. I need some careers advice, what did you do when you started out ? Thaks guys Nadeem Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teng84 Posted June 21, 2007 Share Posted June 21, 2007 try something you really want and the in demand. find something you know you will excel ASTIG!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caesar Posted June 21, 2007 Share Posted June 21, 2007 Don't rely solely on PHP. Try to pick something else up like C++. PHP is great but most decent paying employers look for people with knowledge in compiled languages. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nadeemshafi9 Posted June 21, 2007 Author Share Posted June 21, 2007 i have been working closley with the LAMP stack and my strongest skils are in PHP MySql development or secondly ASP and SQL or Access. I can use ASP.NET basics as i have been taking small amounts of lessons, i have started wring to the database manualy and using all the components in ASP.NET C#. I go to interviews but all the best ones are in LONDON. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nadeemshafi9 Posted June 21, 2007 Author Share Posted June 21, 2007 i can use c++ i have thousends of small practice programs without GUI win32 but i have done that in JAVA but not developed anythign substantial in them what shall i develop ? to practice Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redarrow Posted June 21, 2007 Share Posted June 21, 2007 what was the point in going to uni and not nowing what you went for? was it for the sake of a piece of paper? Most conmputer programmers are self tault in computer programming and dont need uni in any way or form, most good computer programmers dont need proper office jobs they use the net as there income. you state you no php quite well so earn money then it that easy ok. i dont no how to spell properly or can see well but i own my own home and get a nice income due to php mysql css and html you as a uni bud should be caking it in what going on? you said this i can use c++ i have thousends of small practice programs without GUI win32 but i have done that in JAVA but not developed anythign substantial in them what shall i develop ? to practice. so what good dam collage or uni was it(not a good one from that statement?) my god i thort uni was higher then school but dosent sound like it. if u went to a uni you was tested on a exam to setup a vertual atm meachene for the teacher for a master exam in javathe project took 2 weeks and had to be well formated as a reel like cash meachene with a paying gateway (did you pass? did you do it?). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nadeemshafi9 Posted June 21, 2007 Author Share Posted June 21, 2007 please tell me more, how shall i be caking it ?, your dating site could do with an AJAX makover i could do that ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caesar Posted June 21, 2007 Share Posted June 21, 2007 what was the point in going to uni and not nowing what you went for? was it for the sake of a piece of paper? Most conmputer programmers are self tault in computer programming and dont need uni in any way or form, most good computer programmers dont need proper office jobs they use the net as there income. you state you no php quite well so earn money then it that easy ok. i dont no how to spell properly or can see well but i own my own home and get a nice income due to php mysql css and html you as a uni bud should be caking it in what going on? Working in an office can pay off. My friend has been out of the university for less than a year. He is working for a company that develops software for government schools. He will have made roughly 65K this past year. I say, it's not a bad choice...and it looks good on the resume. Edit: His strength was PHP initially but he is now working with .NET and C++/C# stuff. I'm not doing so bad working in an office (I do side projects as well 8-)) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caesar Posted June 21, 2007 Share Posted June 21, 2007 By the way...I meant 65K USD. if you're in the UK, I'm sure there's many opportunities in the bigger cities. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nadeemshafi9 Posted June 21, 2007 Author Share Posted June 21, 2007 should i be forced to travel 30 miles to central london and pay the congestion charge or shall i take a train somthing which i realy dont agree with i hate getting up and having to walk to a train station man but its getting like a nightmare now i might have to. My Ford Fiesta creates 0.25 emmisions i read it on the MOT max is 3.0 , i shoudlent have to pay congestion. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redarrow Posted June 21, 2007 Share Posted June 21, 2007 forget the website from my link ok. i am sorry but i work from home and do well that why i studied php html css, my money reflects my study and only work on large projects. just one script on hotscripts give my your friends income sorry will never goto an office. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nadeemshafi9 Posted June 21, 2007 Author Share Posted June 21, 2007 tell me about this hotscripts u speak of ? oh and iv only been finished uni for 3 weeks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redarrow Posted June 21, 2007 Share Posted June 21, 2007 www.hotscripts.com and sell your own proper made projects ok that easy. a bit off market research a good look around bang done commision to advertise your idear, then sell sell sell lol. watch paypal grow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nadeemshafi9 Posted June 21, 2007 Author Share Posted June 21, 2007 thanks for that i realy appreciate your help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nadeemshafi9 Posted June 21, 2007 Author Share Posted June 21, 2007 can you give me a quick talk for how to get the link where you click it and your redirected from your site to paypal you know with teh item in place on the paybal basket? i have an account Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redarrow Posted June 21, 2007 Share Posted June 21, 2007 Sorry to be blunt but i wouldnt goto uni and study 5 years then let another boss get my work no way man use the net for it full pertentuall. i hope you do well hope you all the best. there alot of money to earnt on the internet example. Third party hosting. administator for web sites. seo work. logo design intergration more more more the list is endless. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mmarif4u Posted June 21, 2007 Share Posted June 21, 2007 Nice post nadeemshafi. So every body have their own idea and opinion, For me i am doing job, and also work on projects after work time, so not easy to handle both. But i prefer work from home, bcoz for job u have to getup early in the morning and went to the station and wait for bus or train.Than in the off the BOSS say do this, do this(I cant afford this.) Its really headache, and waste of time. In favor of PHP and mysql and html, Css i think these are ok for any body.If u can handle big and complex projects with it. than u can start ur life with it. But dont rely all the time on one programming lang, i prefer to learn other lang like asp.net,c++(Which are more demandable). Now take uni, i think it has no concern with ur programming langs.How???? I am doing Now MASTER OF COMPUTER SCIENCE in IS, so what i will do, i will leave uni bcoz i know some programming langs, NO Learning something about ur field is not bad. I am computer std, so i will stuck only with PHP or mysql. May be i will start my carrier with business consultant (Just for me Bcoz doing [iS]). May be no body will agree with me but these are my opinion. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redarrow Posted June 21, 2007 Share Posted June 21, 2007 mmarif4u i agrre with you and i was freelance consulting with cisco routers but my eyes got bad but was good money man but life goes on, must agree consuting in level 3 was fun lol. nadeemshafi9 here some paypal info ok i created for everyone. /Create a mysql database for the ipn reponse so you get all the users information, this will also let you no that the user has payed you. // make sure to put this in the same database as you need to get payments. CREATE TABLE paypal_table ( id int(11) NOT NULL auto_increment, payer_id varchar(60) default NULL, payment_date varchar(50) default NULL, txn_id varchar(50) default NULL, first_name varchar(50) default NULL, last_name varchar(50) default NULL, payer_email varchar(75) default NULL, payer_status varchar(50) default NULL, payment_type varchar(50) default NULL, memo tinytext, item_name varchar(127) default NULL, item_number varchar(127) default NULL, quantity int(11) NOT NULL default '0', mc_gross decimal(9,2) default NULL, mc_currency char(3) default NULL, address_name varchar(255) NOT NULL default '', address_street varchar(255) NOT NULL default '', address_city varchar(255) NOT NULL default '', address_state varchar(255) NOT NULL default '', address_zip varchar(255) NOT NULL default '', address_country varchar(255) NOT NULL default '', address_status varchar(255) NOT NULL default '', payer_business_name varchar(255) NOT NULL default '', payment_status varchar(255) NOT NULL default '', pending_reason varchar(255) NOT NULL default '', reason_code varchar(255) NOT NULL default '', txn_type varchar(255) NOT NULL default '', PRIMARY KEY (id), UNIQUE KEY txn_id (txn_id), KEY txn_id_2 (txn_id) ) TYPE=MyISAM; // use this for the insert of the above mysql table. // this inserts the information into the above table as adove. // example in the working script below. $qry="INSERT INTO paypal_table VALUES (0 , '$payer_id', '$payment_date', '$txn_id', '$first_name', '$last_name', '$payer_email', '$payer_status', '$payment_type', '$memo', '$item_name', '$item_number', $quantity, $mc_gross, '$mc_currency', '$address_name', '".nl2br($address_street)."', '$address_city', '$address_state', '$address_zip', '$address_country', '$address_status', '$payer_business_name', '$payment_status', '$pending_reason', '$reason_code', '$txn_type')"; $result=mysql_query($qry); //make a form to get payments. // sandbox is for testing and paypal is for live transaction. //example this is setup for testing the code within sandbox and sandbox is a mirrow site for paypal and has got to be setup via the sandbox url. <form action="https://www.sandbox.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post"> // example this is setup to take a live payment from your live paypal account. <form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post"> //example this is to setup the account to send a payment to you, when you setup sandbox to test the code you also need to set this to the testing email address. <input type="hidden" name="business" value="admin@whatever.com"> // example these are for paypal to return to the ipn code to valadate payment. <input type="hidden" name="currency_code" value="GBP"> <input type="hidden" name="return" value="http://whatever.com/ipn.php"> ---------------the form prpoer format for ipn ------------------------------------------------------ <form action="https://www.sandbox.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post"> <input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_xclick"> <input type="hidden" name="business" value="admin@hotmail.com"> <input type="hidden" name="item_name" value='<? echo"Freelance Programming Advert From $added_date to $exspire_date"?>'> <input type="hidden" name="item_number" value='<?php echo $record['id'] ?>'> <input type="hidden" name="amount" value='<?php echo $price ?>'> <input type="hidden" name="no_note" value="1"> <input type="hidden" name="currency_code" value="GBP"> <input type="hidden" name="return" value="http://freelanceprogrammers.ath.cx/test.php"> <input type="hidden" name="rm" value="2"> <input type="hidden" name="cancel_return" value=" "> <input type="image" src="https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/x-click-but23.gif" border="0" name="submit" alt="Make payments with PayPal - it's fast, free and secure!"> </form> --------------------end---------------------------------------------------------------- //php working ipn code this is a fully working version of ipn in php format follow above example. <?php session_start(); // read the post from PayPal system and add 'cmd' $req = 'cmd=_notify-validate'; foreach ($_POST as $key => $value) { $value = urlencode(stripslashes($value)); $req .= "&$key=$value"; } // post back to PayPal system to validate $header .= "POST /cgi-bin/webscr HTTP/1.0\r\n"; $header .= "Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded\r\n"; $header .= "Content-Length: " . strlen($req) . "\r\n\r\n"; $fp = fsockopen ('www.sandbox.paypal.com', 80, $errno, $errstr, 30); // assign posted variables to local variables $item_name = $_POST['item_name']; $item_number =$_POST['item_number']; $payment_status = $_POST['payment_status']; $payment_amount = $_POST['mc_gross']; $payment_currency = $_POST['mc_currency']; $txn_id = $_POST['txn_id']; $receiver_email= $_POST['receiver_email']; $payer_email= $_POST['payer_email']; if (!$fp) { // HTTP ERROR } else { fputs ($fp, $header . $req); while (!feof($fp)) { $res = fgets ($fp, 1024); if (strcmp ($res, "VERIFIED") == 0) { $qry="INSERT INTO paypal_table VALUES (0 , '$payer_id', '$payment_date', '$txn_id', '$first_name', '$last_name', '$payer_email', '$payer_status', '$payment_type', '$memo', '$item_name', '$item_number', $quantity, $mc_gross, '$mc_currency', '$address_name', '".nl2br($address_street)."', '$address_city', '$address_state', '$address_zip', '$address_country', '$address_status', '$payer_business_name', '$payment_status', '$pending_reason', '$reason_code', '$txn_type')"; $result=mysql_query($qry); echo 'payment tacken'; } else if (strcmp ($res, "INVALID") == 0) { echo 'no payment sorry'; } } fclose ($fp); } ?> //////////// end////////////// Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mmarif4u Posted June 21, 2007 Share Posted June 21, 2007 Thanks redarrow to agree with. About Level 3, i think it depends on ur skills and abilities. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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