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This is an article to document a standalone function which generates an access token from within Zoho CRM so you can access your Xero instance. There are 3rd-party API libraries and SDKs out there but as usual with financial technologies (fintech), I don't trust them. Here's how to do it in pure Deluge with a Zoho CRM...
This is a short article on how to remove the ID numbers from your Joomla website addresses for search engine friendly URLs. // What I have www.joellipman.com/index.php?option=com_content&category_id=4&article_id=123-article-alias // With URL rewriting enabled www.joellipman.com/index.php/4-category-alias/123-article-al...
During a site upgrade, the commenting extension for Joomla called JComments would return errors when using PHP version 7. This is a quick article to document what needed doing to fix the errors. How?
This is an article to document how to output the most frequently used words in a MySQL database column. How? Note this only applies to MySQL.
This is an article documenting a generic script that can be used to push an invoice to the demo Xero environment. Following the steps below will connect you to the Demonstration environment of Xero at no cost to you the developer. How? Similar to my ZohoAPI script the process is: Start with a HTML form to add your clie...
This is a quick note on how to reduce a whole bunch of CSS into a single line without unnecessary spaces and new lines.
A sorta quick article to note how I can generate refresh tokens and access tokens using Zoho Deluge code (so within Zoho Creator, CRM or Books) without XML calls.
This is an article on how to build a shopping cart and get your website to accept payments via PayPal. The below isn't a final or perfect option, it's an article to help me document and refine a process.
Just a quick note to refine a function that will take a date in the past and return the number of years, months, weeks, days, hours, minutes and seconds.
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