Earlier this year, I spent a couple of weeks re-visiting the Force.com PHP Toolkit and decided to enhance it with a modern user interface and some useful features such as CRUD operations and import/export to CSV.
I’ve cleaned up the code now and it’s available on my Github repo. Let’s do a quick recap of the earlier tutorials and what we covered in each of these.
In the last tutorial, we learnt how to enhance the Force.com PHP Toolkit by building a Contact Detail page and doing CRUD operations on the user interface for Contact records. In this post, we’ll look at how to import and export Contact records into a CSV file.
In the last tutorial, I described how I used jQuery DataTable and Bootstrap to revamp the Contact list. In this part, I will describe on how to build simple Contact Detail pages and how to create, update and delete Contact records to enhance the toolkit further.
One of the best things about being a Salesforce developer is that there’re lots of open-source projects and tools available. The bad thing though is that since there are so many of these, most of these aren’t updated regularly enough. The Force.com PHP Toolkit is one such framework which although is very powerful, but the user interface is completely dated as it’s not been updated since year 2010.
I decided to pick it up, enhance it and jazz it up a little bit to adopt to the modern times. Read on to find out more.
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