Open Realty Featured Listings Offsite Anywhere

Posted on February 12, 2008
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Featured Listings Anywhere v2.0

Version 2.0 of this snippet was updated to provide end users an easy to configure solution for adding featured listings to applications like WordPress, Joomla, vBulletin or other applications by using a pair of simple php inclusions to display the listings.

The framework for this code snippet was designed as part of our FREE WordPress Real Estate Listings Plug-in do out by months end.  What I did was have my coder remove the primary set of functions used to display the custom featured listings in WordPress and create a simple solution for displaying Open Realty featured listings on external locations.  Some of the basic features include the display of featured listings based on Class, AgentID (perfect for sites that have agent blogs as well as open realty) City, State and soon by zip code among other things.

I like the word framework because it implies that it can be built upon which is exactly why it was carefully planned for so we could easily adapt it for use in four subsequent tools pending release that will use this framework to achieve different things.  My concern very early on was this;  If I’m spending the money to pay Mark to code these FREE snippets, I need to maximize their potential and avoid running into a mishap of subsequent releases of Open Realty breaking the addons.  The solution to prevent this was simple in my eyes.  Don’t depend on Open Realty, just the data in the data base and step outside of the Open Realty addon system, so, he did just that.  These tools do not require Open Realty to maintain backwards compliant for addon support and at current version, we have tested with various versions of Open Realty as far back as version 2.1 with a clean bill of health.   Naturally older versions did not have the CLASS feature, so modifications using listing type also worked well.

The Framework basically gives us the ability to make our WordPress plugin ( A FREEBIE ) and other snippet additions to work without a great deal of change needed to the code.  This means that the code thats rendering the featured listings on external sites is the same code (for the most part) that makes The Flash Image Rotator, The Page Flip, our PDF Brochure Generator, Our Google Maps, and the future Flash Virtual Tour to work efficiently OUTSIDE of the addon system.  I have long wanted to scrap the use of the JAVA tour feature in Open Realty largely because no one uses JAVA in their browsers and with our new FLASH VIRTUAL TOUR that addon achieves better and cleaner cross compliant control for everyone in hopes that it will encourage tours to become the norm. 

Although those items that are currently setup as addons will be sold at $5, most of these snippets will be freeware like the much needed PDF Brochure Generator in Open Realty.  The sale of the addons is a sort of forced donation-ware to help me offset the costs associated with paying Mark to do these.

A developer package is also available NOW and includes an unlimited site license among other things for many of the addons mentioned above.

To order the V2.0 of Open Realty Featured Anywhere visit the products page.

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