Real Estate Site - Our Biggest MODx Site So Far - Feedback Welcomed

Quote from: rossco at Apr 22, 2008, 02:54 PM

Looks great... just wondering what made you use an Iframe and not an Object? I like the subdomain idea aswell.

I don’t know a method that I could implement this service’s output by using an object.. do tell please?

Have a look at this site

http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/struct/objects.html#h-13.5

From what I read, object is going to be used instead of iframe but is only needed if you want to validate a strict docu site.

<object id="page" type="text/html"
data="page.htm"
width="500" height="600">
</object>

There’s an example of an object.

I’m not saying you have done anything wrong, just wondering.

Quote from: robot at Apr 22, 2008, 02:46 PM

Quote from: XmodX at Apr 11, 2008, 04:14 PM

Very nice... !
Does the site integrate MLS listings searches then in some way, it looks like it does?
Good luck looks really good.

nope. just an iframe, i wish there were an API for that thing - but as is that was unfortunately my only option.

I was curious about that too. I’m doing a real estate site that doesn’t use MLS, but has its own in-house listings. So instead of MODx I’m having to turn to Open-Realty... not exactly thrilled about that, but, its a decent piece of software.

I was looking around for an MLS api a year or so ago. And they’re are some, but it gets pretty expensive to work with it- time or money wise. There are some companies that’ll host a semi-customizable version of your listings- they’re IDX or RETS companies.

A lot of MLS services offer RETS compatibility, and that might be worth looking into as a group. A RETS ditto for MODx. It’d be big but be worth it for the prject and us MODx devs.

Looking around for ways to integrate RETS to a real estate website.

I’ve seen Open Realty (OR), and some commercial addons for OR, but I’m looking for something more flexible and simpler.

Any suggestions?

Hello,
Just a silly question how come there are .aspx files not .php? :S
Just hope to make kind of similar property search in MODx but way simpler of course.
Regards,
Kaspar

actually yeah, we ended up not renewing our contract with those guys and the site’s now managed by another vendor. here’s the old markup though http://sunrealtyobx.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://web.archive.org/web/20090217225312/http://sunrealtyobx.com/