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Looking for an online tool that will take an image and make a thumbnail copy? This article is for me if I ever want to recreate an online tool capable of receiving an image URL and which both generates and outputs a thumbnail image and makes it downloadable via URL.
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An article for me or for whoever dares to upgrade their Joomla CMS from version 3 to version 5. Disclaimer: I'm used to doing this without any third-party extensions. I strongly recommend you do a backup beforehand of the database and of all your files
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A follow on from my article Zoho Creator: Create a Widget which uses JavaScript back from 2020 with a few adjustments now in 2024. This widget will only work within Zoho Creator. If you want a solution which sits on an external website and which talks to Zoho, then setup an externally hosted web app with the usual Java...
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An article for myself really as I couldn't find much online to address the errors I encountered below but also to document the import process of a bunch of files into a ZohoCRM system.
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So this is an article expanding on my article Zoho Deluge - Connect to Xero API and explores how instead of a schedule, we can get Xero to tell ZohoCRM whenever an invoice or contact gets updated in Xero.
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Apologies for copying and pasting this but this is information that is worth NOT losing. Tutorial on how to use COM objects in AutoHotkey. Source: Jethrow @ Autohotkey Forums
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This is an article to demonstrate how to handle commas in a CSV file that were enclosed between two double-quotes. I've added to this the handling of new lines or carriage returns in between a pair of double-quotes.
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This is an article documenting how to send a Zoho Deluge Map request to an API which is expecting nested/2d/multi-dimensonal arrays. In the example below, we are posting to a PHP script for testing but I have since sent something similar to an API expecting nested arrays (not sure if they were PHP) and it works.
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This is slightly different to my article Zoho Deluge: Get Refresh/Access Token API v2 (Zoho to Zoho service) and different to my Zoho CRM: APIv2 using PHP & cURL (3rd-Party to Zoho), in that this details how to setup a connection to use in an invoke URL statement. Specifically for Zoho Books, Subscriptions or Inventory...
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