Logic Design & Consultancy

There's a bunch of open-source scripts out there for invoicing, we've just switched over to Xero (which is okay...) used to use a simple built-in-house php/mysql script to manage everything which was great as if gave us access to report on anything with a quick sql statement. Search: invoice plane or have a look on codecanyon or just plain old MS Word/Excel?

Hi Wessal, You could possibly reduce the image by converting it to a video file? Or as @fisicx said remove it. That gif is 1.6MB which is more than i'd recommend for an entire page to load. Your home page is ~6.1mb which is too much (In my opinion). I'd recommend you look into image caching, there is some going on css/js but nothing on the images. Also minification and compression. This is a general problem with paid themes - they often come with so much clutter. Even a seasoned pro would struggle to get load speed to a good level.

Hi Stooly! If you'd prefer to remain 'self-employed' you can do. You'll just have to do a personal tax return detailing the income you generated, instead of a company tax return. Even though you have a LTD entity you don't have to use it - unless you'd prefer to reduce your personal liability by trading as LTD. As you said; the tax free dividend allowance you can take is up-to £2k from a business, then it's 7.5% Tax over and up-to £34,500. There are more bands above this (all less than standard personal tax bands). Just remember to factor in the various other taxes associated with the ltd status business. For example: corporation tax (tax on end-of-year profits). Dividends don't count as expenses (unlike PAYE) so there's 19% corp tax on that dividend. One benefit of being self-employed or a director on PAYE is that you'll be paying National Insurance which is tied to then state pension later on. If the take home pay (in the bank) is less than minimum earnings £12,500 HMRC technically pay your NI for you. Hope that's of help? As @rallport said above - a good accountant will help with all this. We certainly couldn't do it without their assistance.

I'd recommend checking out slim framework. It's a very simple and small php framework - you can do everything in one file. Good documentation too, you'll need various composer packages to actually make anything though. We've actually done quite few simple portal's for clients and connected to SQL servers (as that's commonly used for business systems). I just opened one of these project's files, the total custom code bit's about 300 lines. It has a basic login, record search and a form that adds data to an SQL database. We setup various stored procedures on database so anything posted is validated twice to ensure the PHP script doesn't cause issues on a live DB when developer's work on it (errors are part of the development process!). The only relevant package we used was "illuminate/database" which is part of laravel (You'll need the 'sqlsrv' driver installed on the server to connect to SQL) Hope that's of help?

I've just downloaded VS Code and will give it a play - for a start the file search is much better than sublime. Might be a keeper!

Hi gigman7! I think your only error is that the line: $shortDesc = $_POST['shortDesc']['$x']; Should be (without the single quotes on $x); $shortDesc = isset($_POST['shortDesc'][$x]) ? $_POST['shortDesc'][$x] : NULL; Im assuming your looping though the fields and $x is the database row id? BrowserBugs full script works well you might be best of taking bits from that

We all use Sublime Text 3 at our company by far the best in our opinion for PHP/HTML etc It's nice and simple and loads of extensions available!

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