For some time I’ve ran this blog on Wordpress and I’ve had no complaints. Wordpress is a mature and very powerful platform.

However in my case that turns out to be it’s undoing. I blog at most once a week (it’s been much less than that ...

I’ve previously created a very simple module for SuiteCRM which adds coloured logging (SuiteCRM Colour Logger). I’ve now expanded it somewhat to add extra features.

It’s now called SuiteSuperLogger and allows specifying the log format in the config.

Enabling coloured logging can be done by adding

$sugar_config ...

The CLI to php allows checking for syntax errors using php -l I’ve created a very basic script which will recursively check folders for php files with syntax errors. It’s intended to quickly show syntax errors in a large application. It’s available here: https://github.com/JimMackin ...

SuiteCRM package builder is a small PHP script which eases the pain of building a SuiteCRM package for installing changes to other instances. It simply requires a SuiteCRM install and a compliant manifest file.

This means you can build up the bulk of the package just by running something similar ...