Working on a portal that allows end users to enter their flight details for Operation Wallacea (OPWALL) trips, we were finding many details not being entered correctly. Since the portal was to take some of the load off the operations staff, having to double-check everything was not really saving any tine. The flight codes (or […]
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SugarCRM CE Codebase Improvements Wishlist
Since SugarCRM CE has now been forked as SuiteCRM, given the uncertainly of its ongoing support from the company behind it, I thought it time to start putting my wishlist codebase improvements that will help make it a lot more maintainable and usable. These are simply things that I have found a royal pain to […]
Query SugarCRM Contacts by Email Address over the API
Update (2013-12-19): I have found a great technique that allows custom queries to be written and accessed through the API, and without having to customise the API at all. It involves creating a simple module then switching its main table for a view. I’ll write this up in a later article, but what it does […]
Google Web Fonts API – categories and subsets
Each font provided by the Google Web Fonts API is in a category, and comes in a variety of one or more subsets. The category provides a broad grouping of the fonts into styles. These are the categories: Sans Serif Display Serif Handwriting Each font will appear in just one of these categories. When you […]
REST API Library for SugarCRM
I’m working on this library for a couple of projects, and it may be useful if you want to talk to SugarCRM from your PHP application: https://github.com/academe/sugarrestapi The library contains access to all of SugarCRM’s REST API functions (V4, so far) and attempts to wrap the Sugar data up into a number of models (Entry, […]