Convert XML UTF-16 to JSON UTF-8 with PHP cURLhttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/web-development/php/convert-xml-utf-16-to-json-utf-8-with-php-curl.html

28 March 2015 it doesn't solve my problem. I'm receiving XML data within a cURL result but I get the above error with using either "SimpleXMLElement" or "simplexml_load_string". Returning the XML with cURL isn't a problem, but I want to convert it to JSON and I...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Personal Home Page
• Language: en-GB

List of Font Awesomehttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/web-development/list-of-font-awesome.html

04 September 2015 It's basically a font set that has all the icons you would want in a modern website design. How? To use this list, you can either: Copy the font files to your template folder (my preference) and add the linked stylesheet in the head section of your...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Web-Development
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Sort an associative array by values in Javascripthttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/web-development/js/sort-an-associative-array-by-values-in-javascript.html

29 September 2015 on the web and everyone saying you're doing it wrong... Which is true but quite unhelpful. The original code is not my own either but that's not an excuse. I also found that examples across the web were only partial and thought I'd write a full example...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: JavaScript
• Language: *

Google Authentication - OAuth 2.0 using PHP/cURLhttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/google/google-authentication-oauth-2-0-using-php-curl.html

31 October 2018 necessary to process Google Authentication using OAuth2.0. These functions allow a script to simply be loaded and to either create a token file, or use the existing one as long as it hasn't expired. Update 2019 This script requires a user to...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Google
• Language: en-GB

Zoho Deluge - First Monday of Month or Last Tuesday of Monthhttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-deluge-first-monday-of-month-or-last-tuesday-of-month.html

27 September 2019 An article on setting a date field to either the first Monday of the next month or to the last Tuesday of the current/next month. What I mean by the last Tuesday is if the last Tuesday of the month is before the current date, then set it to the last...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Zoho
• Language: en-GB

Zoho Deluge: Convert Xero Date (Unix Timestamp) to Standard Date Stringhttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-deluge-convert-xero-date-unix-timestamp-to-standard-date-string.html

04 May 2020 HH:mm:ss", "Europe/London"); Additional The reverse (date string to unix seconds) can be done using either of the following: v_MyDate = "2020-04-01 12:34:56"; v_UnixSeconds = v_MyDate.toTime().toLong(); info v_UnixSeconds; // or v_UnixSeconds =...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Zoho
• Language: *

Zoho Creator: Download uploaded file and attach to Sales Order in Zoho Bookshttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-creator-download-uploaded-file-and-attach-to-sales-order-in-zoho-books.html

15 May 2020 of the line or incomplete expression This could be a missing semi-colon somewhere in your code OR that you have included either "content-type" in your invokeUrl (not supported by Creator: use headers instead) or submitted a List of files under "files"...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Zoho
• Language: *

Zoho Deluge: Search Records with Special Characters (COQL)http://mail.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-deluge-search-records-with-special-characters-coql.html

28 August 2020 (website address) of the CRM you are wanting to do this on. The part after Zoho is the top level domain (TLD) and will be either .COM, .EU or as per your region. If the first part of your URL says: https://zoho.com/ then use the endpoint...

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• Category: Zoho
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Zoho Creator: Create a Widget which uses JavaScripthttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-creator-create-a-widget-which-uses-javascript.html

24 October 2020 records in the Zoho JavaScript. If you do not include Zoho queries, then I have found the app can be ported between either Creator or CRM (as in pure HTML,CSS and JS). Files referring to Creator specifically: ./app/widget.html: reference to script src...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Zoho
• Language: *

Zoho Creator: Set Up Custom Domain for Customer Portalhttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-creator-set-up-custom-domain-for-customer-portal.html

17 November 2020 right. Note the small code and prefix it to your parent domain (eg. abcd12.joellipman.com) and note the CNAME which will either be creator.cs.zohohost.eu or creator.cs.zohohost.com depending on your datacenter: 2. Setup your Domain/Subdomain The process...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Zoho
• Language: *

Zoho People: Reject an Application for Leave in Deluge based on Criteriahttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-people-reject-an-application-for-leave-in-deluge.html

10 December 2020 if not: To return an error (I know we set the function to return "Map" and are using a "Collection" but a Collection is either a list or a map): // return response as error popup v_OutputMessage = "Sorry! Leave has been rejected due to too many...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Zoho
• Language: *

Zoho CRM & Zoho Books: Custom Related Lists Delugehttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-crm-zoho-books-custom-related-lists-deluge.html

30 July 2021 it in Zoho Books... The example below is that we are going to search for some records in Zoho Creator and display these in either Zoho Books or Zoho CRM. For demonstration purposes, these have been simplified and will need to be adapted for your needs....

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Zoho
• Language: *

ZohoCRM to ZohoBooks: Please ensure that the shipping_address has less than 100 characters.http://mail.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zohocrm-to-zohobooks-please-ensure-that-the-shipping_address-has-less-than-100-characters.html

22 September 2021 how to create a shipping address and retrieve its ID then here's the method I use: Create the sales order in ZohoBooks (either in Zoho Deluge or however you're doing it), then Retrieve the ID of the created Sales Order (captured in response) Update the...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Zoho
• Language: *

Zoho Books: Display Sales Order Shipping Address on Package Sliphttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-books-display-sales-order-shipping-address-on-package-slip.html

07 October 2021 going to Settings > Preferences > Packing Slip Settings > and Enable "Delivery To": Then change the Shipping Address Format either under "Customers and Vendors" (although this applies to all templates) or under the specific template. I wanted to do this...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Zoho
• Language: *

Zoho CRM: Using a function for validation rules (or restricting specific picklist options by user profile)http://mail.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-crm-using-a-function-for-validation-rules.html

11 February 2022 first-line agents also wouldn't help as some of the options should be selectable. Two separate fields weren't quite right either: 1 as read-only (permission only to higher level) and 1 picklist as selectable means that the first-line agent would be...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Zoho
• Language: *

Zoho Creator: Shopify API Integration Oauth 2.0 - Update 2022 (Search by SKU GraphQL)http://mail.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-creator-shopify-api-integration-oauth-2-0-update-2022.html

14 February 2022 Note that if your search query string has spaces in it, the above without the small apostrophes (single-quotes) will return either a parsing error or just no data. In the line: v_GraphQl = "{ productVariants(first: 1, query: \"sku:" + v_SearchSKU + "\")...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Zoho
• Language: *

PC Build 2022: 5 Monitors connected to 1 PC using 1 GPUhttp://mail.joellipman.com/pc-build-2022-5-monitors-connected-to-1-pc-using-1-gpu.html

12 March 2022 it (I had no idea whether my motherboard supported it as it kept talking about AMD Crossfire/NVidia SLI and I'm doing neither). But that didn't work, then I found you need to do an extra step in your Windows OS... Now for the BIOS: Restart your PC While...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Articles
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Zoho Inventory: Mark a package slip as delivered and shippedhttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-inventory-mark-a-package-slip-as-delivered-and-shipped.html

14 July 2022 != null) { v_ShipmentID = r_CreateShipment.get("shipment_order").get("shipment_id"); } } } // // maybe one is either used or created if(v_ShipmentID != "") { v_Url = "https://inventory.zoho.com/api/v1/shipmentorders/" + v_ShipmentID +...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Zoho
• Language: *

ZohoCRM: Import Attachmentshttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zohocrm-import-attachments.html

16 January 2023 records in CRM. This took me a while as our own documentation is scatty and the online forums weren't too helpful either. How? In the example below, we are going to document how to import files associated to CRM Contact records. There's first the...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Zoho
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Zoho Cliq: Integrate OpenAI and ChatGPT 3.5 Turbohttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-cliq-integrate-openai-and-chatgpt-3-5-turbo.html

13 February 2023 only has information up to 2021. How? The basics of setting this up would be to setup a bot in ZohoCliq and then to edit either a message handler or participation handler. As for the usage, simply ask the Cliq Bot a question and it will forward the...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Zoho
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