There is a small bug in the Customer Portal - when trying to download files, an error occurs, as a result of which the user receives a file of zero size. The bug is reproduced not in all cases, but only when trying to download files with incorrect syntax in the file name.

Often, online stores have products grouped by categories and subcategories, while the number of subcategories and their nesting can be unlimited. In this article, I will show you how you can use Eloquent to pass category nesting to the API to quickly display a tree.

PHP 8 introduced us to a new expression - 'match' - very powerful functionality that will often be a great alternative to the 'switch' statement. I say "often" here because both match and switch have their own uses, often not overlapping with each other. So let's take a look at the differences between the two.

Not everyone likes the standard login window in Vtiger CRM. Especially with advertising. I want something simple, with a laconic and minimalist design. Moreover, it is very easy to do it. It is enough to edit only one file - layouts / v7 / modules / Users / Login.tpl. Below is an example of my file, which I most often use when setting up Vtiger CRM for my clients. On the screenshot for this post, you can see an example of How the authorization window looks after the edits.

Often in the process of developing APIs with Vtiger CRM, I had to deal with one very unpleasant situation - we delete any record from CRM, while related records are not deleted. They have to be removed separately through additional requests. And this makes the process of deleting all records very long and hard to implement.