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Deployment with SVN slides - Dutch PHP Conference
18 June 2008
Read moreThe slides for my talk "PHP Deployment with Subversion" at the Dutch PHP Conference last weekend are now online, you can find them at http://www.slideshare.net/lornajane/php-deployment-with-svn/. If you have any questions or comments then either drop me a line or add a comment below.
Edit: I …
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DPC Talk Review
16 June 2008
Read moreA couple of days ago I had the pleasure of speaking at the excellent Dutch PHP Conference in Amsterdam. I haven't done anything like this before and I did a lot of preparation - as you'll know if you read this blog regularly.
My talk was entitled "PHP Deployment with Subversion …
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Visit To PHP London
06 June 2008
Read moreLast night I had the opportunity to speak at the PHP London group, giving a talk entitled "PHP Deployment with Subversion". This is the talk I will be giving next week at the Dutch PHP Conference in Amsterdam, and giving the same talk last night was the last step in …
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Data Migration Article on DevZone
22 May 2008
Read moreI'm pleased to announce that DevZone have published an article of mine - the examples article I wrote to accompany my recent podcast on the topic of importing and migrating data. It has some code examples which I think make a good illustration of the points I was trying to make …
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Data Migration Podcast
15 May 2008
Read moreI'm the guest on this week's php|abstract podcast from DevZone, talking about some techniques for importing and migrating data. I have a few pet strategies for dealing with this and they're outlined on the podcast so dip in and let me know what you think.
There will also be …
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SugarCRM SOAP Data Types
24 April 2008
Read moreSince SugarCRM only works with PHP5 in non-WSDL mode, I had to create all my calls from scratch. The SugarCRM documentation is somewhat minimal, as I may have mentioned, and I found I was mostly reading the WSDL to figure out how to format my SOAP calls. I've put together a post with working examples but I've also assembled a list of the data types needed. Click through to read more.
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SugarCRM SOAP API Examples
24 April 2008
Read moreBy popular request, here are some examples that worked for me when using the SOAP API offered by SugarCRM. Its nice that there is an interface, but it isn't brilliantly documented or nearly as widely used as it should be!
SugarCRM can't talk to PHP 5 native SOAP libraries in …
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SugarCRM SOAP API
15 April 2008
Read moreI don't know when SugarCRM, the open source CRM tool, first acquired a SOAP API but I missed it completely. I've used SugarCRM a few times, on quite a casual level, and only fell across the SOAP API because I needed it.
The first thing to note is that the …
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SugarCRM Custom Fields
09 April 2008
Read more'Tis the week for code snippets it seems - actually its mostly that I'm working with SugarCRM in anger for the first time and falling into a few traps. Due to the unique way in which this product is funded, there is a lot less community support around than I'd expect …
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PHP5 SOAP Error in non-WSDL Mode
08 April 2008
Read moreI just came across a really strange error while using PHP5's excellent SOAP functionality. My SoapClient was operating in non-WSDL mode but when I called function that did not exist I got the error:
Operation 'getFunctions' is not defined in the WSDL for this service
After spending quite a long …
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Software That Costs Money?
06 April 2008
Read moreI haven't paid money for software for a long time. I bought a student license for Microsoft Office in 1999, and I've definitely bought a laptop that came with Windows since then, but that's about it. I've given money to organisations that made my software, but I can't think of …
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ZendCon Call For Papers
04 April 2008
Read moreThe ZendCon Call For Papers is now open. This conference is one of the biggest of the year but unfortunately is only held in the US. This year I am planning to submit talks for consideration for the first time ... wish me luck :)