Zurmo - Open Source CRM

raysto · November 11, 2011, 5:07pm

Hello,

We have been working on an Open Source CRM application that is written in PHP utilizing Yii, JQuery, and RedBeanPHP and relies heavily on test driven development. It might be one of the most complex projects on Yii to date. Right now, we have 1000+ unit tests running across eight server configurations and utilize selenium for a nice set of functional tests too. Take a look and let me know what you think: http://zurmo.org

Thanks,

Ray

dymatrix · November 11, 2011, 7:09pm

Very cool. Thanks for sharing this.

-Lou

sidewinder · November 11, 2011, 8:42pm

Looks nice. Any plans of supporting opera browser as well?

Raoul · November 11, 2011, 9:51pm

really impressive !!! good job !

Van_Damm · November 11, 2011, 10:23pm

Why use RedBeanPHP instead of Yii’s own ActiveRecord?

raysto · November 11, 2011, 10:49pm

No plans for Opera as of yet, but I can see it being supported in a future release. If you could submit on our Feature Request page page, that would be great.

http://zurmo.org/forums/feature-requests/

raysto · November 14, 2011, 4:48am

We chose RedBeanPHP because we thought it was a better fit for our project and offered some additional flexibility we liked. For ORM, RedBean auto builds database schema and keeps in sync with definitions in the application.

ivica · November 14, 2011, 12:46pm

We currently have functional tests developed for IE, Firefox and Chrome, and that is why we currently support only those browsers in app. However, it is possible that application works fully in Opera too, and if you want to try how it works in Opera you need to add Opera signature to BeginRequestBehavior::handleBrowserCheck() function(app/protected/modules/zurmo/components/BeginRequestBehavior.php).

binkabir · November 14, 2011, 2:18pm

im impressed it cool, which jquery chart is this (for generating this bar charts)?

ivica · November 14, 2011, 2:41pm

We used Fusion Charts for those charts on dashboard.

binkabir · November 14, 2011, 7:45pm

was speed part of the reasons you chose RedBeanPHP or ActiveRecord??

did you use the CRUD from gii to generate any script for RedBeanPHP??

thanks

ivica · November 15, 2011, 6:30am

No, the reason was not speed, but ORM features that offers RedBeanPHP.

We didn’t use gii at all, we created all models, views and controllers manually.

iivano71 · November 15, 2011, 8:42am

Use ExtJS , will give you more preformance for this app http://www.sencha.com/products/extjs/

raysto · November 15, 2011, 4:56pm

Thank you for the recommendation Igor. Much appreciated!

coderkk · November 17, 2011, 5:50am

Nice interface

philippfrenzel · November 17, 2011, 11:38am

Suggestions…

Pic 1) our customer mask

Pic 2) Zurmo Account Mask

I like the "toolbox" in pic 2 at the right side! I will include something similar in our customer mask…

then looking at our customer mask, we try to reduce to the "high frequent" informations for a "first look"…

Feedback and Discussion welcome!

Cheers Phil

oldblues10 · November 18, 2011, 8:45pm

Thanks for your feedback. We will be releasing a really cool User interface soon that I think you will enjoy.

raysto · November 21, 2011, 3:54pm

Thank you coderkk. We are currently revamping our user interface and will have something to show in the next 45-60 days

JuntaNg · November 23, 2011, 3:10pm

Very nice

NickG · November 24, 2011, 1:19am

What I found out is that most people use SugarCRM and Salesforce because of their MS Outlook Plug-ins and contact/task auto sync features so I guess you guys probably have a plan for developing MS Outlook plugins too

You might also want to be looking at developing a sync tool for Google App powered emails