SugarCRM Developer's Manual: Customize and extend SugarCRM

Description

This manual for PHP developers focuses on customizing SugarCRM to extend its capabilities. After an overview of the SugarCRM application architecture and its database, it provides a module development tutorial, showing the essential steps for hooking custom modules into the SugarCRM infrastructure, and finishing with common customizations that can be performed against the codebase. Readers need a basic knowledge of SugarCRM as its installation and usage are not covered. SugarCRM is the world's leading commercial open-source customer relationship management software, offering companies of all sizes a more flexible, cost-effective alternative to proprietary applications. Its open-source architecture allows easier customization and integration of customer-facing business processes to build and maintain more profitable relationships. SugarCRM's deployment options include on-demand, on-premise, and appliance-based solutions to suit customers' security, integration, and configuration needs.