I am starting this poll that I hope the few that visit this site would give some feedback on PHP and Salesforce. I would like to know ideas and thoughts on how we could improve the visibility of PHP to the Salesforce team


I have some thoughts on this but wanted to get some more imput before I just start typing away and making people bored!!

I guess it would be a good idea to express what I am trying to accomplish here by posting my first thoughts on this topic.

When I first starting developing applications about 10 months ago using PHP and working with Salesforce's API, I could not find any examples besides what is on the Salesforce forums. Nick Tran helped me in some cases, but I owe almost all my visibility to Salesforce API work to David Claiborne.

The one thing that frustrates me about salesforce's API documentation is the fact that all the examples are either in C or Java, not one in PHP. You really have to dig deep into the Wiki to get some small examples of how to accomplish certain things such as insert or upsert. This is the reason that I started this site. I knew that if I could get a certain script to work and it was simple enough to code, that someone else might benefit from an example or demo. I know that some of my tutorials have helped a small group of people and man that makes me feel good. I have already stated that if I find something that I have coded and it works, however small, I will share it with the community because it is really the right thing to do

So to end this rant, I would like the help of other PHP developers so we can increase the visibility of PHP within Salesforce and make it so they feel that it is necessary to include examples of PHP in their API documentation and even classes

Anyway as my PHP mentor said to me one time, G'day Mate!

I agree Mike, its very frustrating to spend hours searching for info about the Salesforce API and PHP and after finding it then spend more time on test and fix.

Thats why I support what you are doing here, the fact is that right now this forum is the best PHP-Salesforce API source of documentation and examples in the web (or at least from all websites, forums that I could find in many many days of searching in the web )

I really think that PHP-SFAPI usage will increase in mid-term as this forum grows


Saludos!

I agree and I wanted to share every angle that I try in my different workings with the API. It would be nice to see something from other PHP developers that works with Salesforce and their API. Maybe even expanding on more general PHP SOAP aspects and coding examples.

Hi Mike,

I had a similar thought, and posted some of my examples at http://phpandsalesforce.com. Mine are oriented towards the Enterprise WSDL, but I've posted a Partner version of the first example.

Thanks for the post. So I guess you would be the enemy then huh, lol

Thanks for helping out the Salesforce/PHP community, we are a very small group and any tutorials / help is always helpful man!


~Mike

hahaha! Nope, just trying to share what I learned after the integration from hell

I guess I should clarify, the real problem was the integrators from hell.

-p