XRMS

Summary

XRMS is a web-based application for managing business entities such as employees, customers, contacts, activities with those contacts, etc. XRMS generally falls into the category of application known as Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Sales Force Automation (SFA), with aspects of Business Intelligence (BI). Basically, if your company needs to manage relationships with your customers and business partners, XRMS should be able to fulfill your needs.

VERSION

This version has had many many bug fixes and enhancements. We have also added an automated installation, update, and data integrity process. See the file install/INSTALL for details. This version of XRMS marks a major milestone: We are officially multi-language. There are currently translations for Spanish, German, Brazilian Portugese, Italian, Polish, Dutch, and Chinese, Simplified. Please join us in thanking the translators for all their hard work. If your native language is not English, please help the community by providing a translation, or providing feedback and enhancements to translations already completed. Contact the development team or the translator for more information on how to contribute. We recommend that if more than a few days has passed since the date on a release tarball that you consider downloading and installing a development snapshot instead. These are normally quite stable, as the development team is probably using that code in production at their respective companies. This version of XRMS raises the MySQL recommendation to 4.x for better compatibility with the ADOdb Concat and Cast operators. ADOdb attempts to mirror this functionality in older MySQL installations, so you can try things without upgrading MySQL first, but be aware that you may need to upgrade to a newer MySQL version to get everything running.

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REQUIREMENTS

PHP v4.2 or higher with database extensions for your database. A web server that supports PHP. XRMS has been extensively deployed on Apache and IIS. PHP should be compiled with gettext and recode support if you need i18n/internationalization/translation. We are officially stating that XRMS should now work with any database supported by ADOdb. ADOdb is an excellent free software database abstraction layer for PHP. David Rogers did most of the heavy lifting to convert XRMS to truly be multi-database compliant, and the rest of the development team is very grateful for David's hard work. At this point, any database supported by ADOdb version 4.22 *should* work seamlessly with XRMS. To the best of our knowledge, XRMS has been successfully deployed on MySQL, MS SQL Server, Postgres, and SAP-DB/MaxDB. It should work flawlessly on Oracle and DB/2 as well. If you encounter problems or would like to tweak things to work better with some other database, please let the development team know, and we will be happy to work with you to get your issue resolved. See include/adodb/docs/docs-adodb.htm#drivers for more information on the databases supported by ADOdb. This version of XRMS raises the MySQL recommendation to 4.x for better compatibility with the ADOdb Concat and Cast operators. ADOdb attempts to mirror this functionality in older MySQL installations, so you can try things without upgrading MySQL first, but be aware that you may need to upgrade to a newer MySQL version to get everything running. XRMS is reported to work well under several Linux/Unix flavors, Mac OSX, and Windows Servers. XRMS is regularly tested with most modern browsers, please report any problems.