|  | Posted by The Natural Philosopher on 12/26/07 09:15 
Gilles Ganault wrote:> Hello
 >
 > I'd like to find a basic PHP+MySQL contact manager, so that we can
 > keep a list of our customers, and a contact history (ie. whenever they
 > call us for a problem, it'll be in the file). There may be other nice
 > features I should know about, but I don't want any of those enterprise
 > softwares like SugarCRM etc. that are just too complicated.
 >
 > Actually, I'm thinking of a cross between a contact manager and a
 > bugtracker, since customers usually call for issues and (more rare)
 > suggestions.
 >
 > Seen anything like this?
 >
 
 Sure, but usually written by me.
 
 Its really not hard.
 
 In my case there are four tables
 
 Customers
 ==========
 
 Full contact details
 
 Employees
 =========
 
 The people handling the problems,
 
 
 Tickets
 =======
 
 A support ticket for every issue that is raised, with a status, who
 started it, which customer its associated with,which manager is
 responisble for it, and which support person its currently assigned to.
 Date when opened, date last action taken. Urgency.
 
 Notes
 =====
 
 Free form text associated with an interaction between a support person
 and a problem, time stamped, and with employees stamp on it too.
 Possibly also a BLOB field fotr an upladed file.
 
 E.g.
 June Bloggs
 1/1/2008
 "Tried to replicate problem and found bug. See attached file.
 Referred to Muggins for code fix."
 
 Thats the basic SQL database details.
 
 Then a few forms to add a ticket,
 review selections of tickets, buy customer, by support person, by
 urgency, by age, etc etc.
 
 Plus a ticket updating system to add further notes.
 
 You need a login system for employees and a way to distinguish support
 staff from support manaagers as well.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 > Thank you.
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