Working with PHP and Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online 2011 - Helpful Resources

Its been a few weeks now that I've been working on PHP code to create entities with Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011. It's actually my first time to encounter Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011, or any Customer Relations Management system for that matter, so there was a bit of a steeper learning curve and longer research time to create simple tasks from a PHP code into the CRM.

I've also learned that the Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 is actually the cloud version of Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 which can be hosted on a Windows Server on-premise or online. The two have basically the same except that for CRM 2011, you need to purchase the subscription per user on an official Microsoft-hosted platform (http://www.dynamics.com), whereas in CRM 4.0, you can deploy it on a Windows server in your local office network (on-premise) or host it on a Windows server in the Internet (online).

PHP Redirect Visitors to Another Domain or Subdomain Based on Country

Redirecting visitors to a different domain based on the country of origin is one way to consolidate language translations. For example, I have a site at asdfg.com, and I want Australian visitors to be redirected to asdfg.com.au and UK visitors to be redirected to asdfg.co.uk , I can easily do that with a little PHP and a module called GeoIP. Here are the steps:

How to Make XAMPP work on Windows 7

If you are running into problems making XAMPP work with Windows 7, try installing it on a different partition (or other physical hard drive if available) where Windows 7 is installed. For me, this worked. I have my Windows 7 installed on drive C while my XAMPP installation is on drive D.