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Salesforce Cloud Integration with PHP

Introduction PHP has proved itself as one of the major web development contributors in the world. Lots of websites have been built using the PHP programming language. On the other hand, Salesforce Cloud is a new aged Customer Relation Management (CRM) platform for supercharging every part of the company that interacts with customers- including Sales, Marketing, Customer Service and many more.

Salesforce Force.com platform supports several API’s including SOAP and REST API to integrate Salesforce with other languages like Java, Dot.Net, PHP and many more.

Business Requirement BISP is an Online Training + Consulting company. BISP Solutions Inc. USA was formed in 2012 with the aim of providing affordable Oracle Cloud and BI Solution to companies who are looking for specialized Cloud knowledge without spending top dollars. BISP provides one-stop solution to Business Analytics, Oracle Cloud solution stack. BISP was formed by individuals who are certified Professionals and have 15+ years of experience in Oracle BI Solution over a wide range of domains. BISP provides expert technical and functional sources who thoroughly understand Oracle Cloud technologies. With proper design framework and BI expertise, it enhances financial and operational performance.

In order to get new leads, BISP solutions prepared a website: www.bisptrainings.com and Integrate it with back-end database to capture customer data using contact us form. To serve client/customers in a more fast and efficient way BISP started using Salesforce CRM. Till now Marketing executives need to enter data manually into Salesforce Objects (Mainly Lead Object). BISP wants to make this process automated especially capturing data into Salesforce and sending acknowledgment email.

Possible Solutions: There are multiple solutions to complete their task (3 Major Solutions mentioned)

Solution 1: User Third-Party tools to perform Integration between BISP website database and Salesforce App and schedule it.

Solution 2: Use Python to integrate both BISP website database and Salesforce APP using REST API. Key Note: For this, a person must have knowledge of Python as well. Solution 3: Using PHP toolkit provided by Salesforce to Support PHP Integration (Fast and Easy)

Based on their requirement and effective solutions we will go with Solution 3

Key Note: In this document, we explain step by step Integration between PHP and Salesforce (To Capture New Leads) using PHP Toolkit.

Steps to integrate:

Download PHP toolkit

You can download PHP toolkit from below URL-

GITS- https://github.com/developerforce/Force.com-Toolkit-for-PHP

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Salesforce Integration certification course

Why to learn Salesforce Integration? Salesforce has emerged as one of the hottest skills for IT and business   professionals to possess and is increasingly sought after by employers   across various sectors. Integrating with application help to achieve   better consistency, operational efficiency and quality. It is necessary for the enterprises to integrate applications in order to provide best quality, efficiency and operational consistency. A user interface   integration can provide a single point of entry into multiple   applications. Our Salesforce integration training includes various   sessions involving web services, programmatic integrations, XML, Rest   API, SOAP API,and streaming API.

Market demand for Integration specialist professional? Looking to change fields and get into tech, but don’t know what skills you need to acquire. You should learn a Salesforce skill  and add it to your resume/CV. Companies are now up-skilling those people  with Salesforce skills as a way of getting the right skills into their  business. According to Burning Glass report, Salesforce is now the 7th  most in-demand software skill ahead of all IT skills. Development skills  such as Integration Architecture, Visualforce, Apex Code, are  particularly in high demand.

Acquire new skills with our Salesforce Integration Course

Identify various integration techniques

Develop methods for integrating with the Salesforce platform

Identify the advantages of various integration techniques

Integrate with the Salesforce platform web services

Build custom web services

Integrate with the Streaming and Bulk APIs

Prerequisite   This certification training course does not presume or require any prior   knowledge or prerequisites. However, basic knowledge of salesforce   concepts be an added advantageous. We are recommending that students   should have following:

Candidate should be familiar with the Salesforce platform

Proficient in an object-oriented programming language

Proficient in Java or C#

Familiarity with JavaScript frameworks

If familiar with above it's an added advantage, but not necessary

Note: To get the most out of this course, you should be comfortable reading and writing object-oriented code