Open-Realty 1.00

greengiant
Administrator

12-12-2002, 12:00 AM

Hi,

I am pleased to announce that we just uploaded Open-Realty 1.00 to the server. I would like to invite everyone to grab a copy and try it out. In case anyone is wondering what the status or Open-Realty and openrealty from Jon is, here is the low down. I found Jon's openrealty product while looking for a solutions for a clients website. Jon was not maintaining openrealty any more and had put it up for sale. I contact Jon about the possibility of purchasing openrealty. Jon instead decided to simple place his openrealty on sourceforge and let the existing community take over. That is fine with us, and we wish the project the best of success. Wolfman95 and my self felt that it would best serve our customers and the open source community at large, if we forked our version of openrealty. We wanted to be able to have direct control over what code was changed, and also wanted to make sure the project had an active development team and leadership. Thus the birth of open-realty.org. We have changed version numbers to reflect our actual number of release, thus our first release is 1.00 despite the fact that it is based on 3.01 or Jon's openrealty. We hope everyone likes open-realty and will continue to contribute their time and make this an even better product.

Thank you,

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Ryan C. Bonham

Open-Realty 1.00

12-12-2002 - Open-Realty 1.00 is up. Download it and let us know what you think. Please provide us with feedback in the forums.

What is Open-Realty?

Open-Realty is 100% free suite for maintaining Real Estate Websites. You will never be charged a cent to use it and there are no restrictions on its use.

This release of Open-Realty is a fork of OpenRealty 3.0.1 from Jon Roig (jon@jonroig.com). Please Visit http://www.jonroig.com/freecode/openrealty/

Open-Realty 1.00

Open-Realty is a free, open source real estate listing manager. Intended to be both easy to install and easy to administer, Open-Realty uses PHP to drive a mySQL backend, thus creating a tool which is fast and flexible.

While the basic version of Open-Realty can be downloaded for free, I'm always available to customize it for your specific needs. Feel free to contact me ryan@open-realty.org.

Features:

Allows visitors to look through your real estate listings 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365.25 days a year.
Easily keep your property listings updated -- no HTML coding required to add, delete, or modify listings.
Built-in image manager -- upload photos via your web browser, either when creating new listings or modifying an existing one. If photos are not uploaded for a property, a "photo not available" image will be automatically displayed for the listing.
Automatically thumbnails -- smaller versions of your images are automatically created through the GD library.
Automagically interfaces with Yahoo Maps -- potential customers will always know exactly where to find your property.
Flexible database backend -- compatible with mysql, oracle, microsoft SQL, etc... through the ADODB abstraction layer.
Secure -- no one but you can change your listings.
Viral Marketing -- visitors can email listings to their friends right from Open-Realty.
Easy to install -- just edit a single configuration file.
Showcase specific properties -- built-in featured listing manager allows you to place special offerings right on your front page.
Flexible search -- browse properties according to whatever criteria you like.
Easy setup -- configurator tool makes Open-Realty 3.0 easy to install.
Configurable forms -- Don't like the form choices included in Open-Realty? Change them to meet your needs!
Template system -- produce a sophisticated site without any knowledge of PHP
Supports CSS stylesheets.
Multilanguage capable

Of course, Open-Realty is written entirely in PHP, which makes it easy to customize and revise to match the look of your website.

Features in version 1.00 (12-15-02)

This project is fork of openrealty 3.01. This release fixes a number of bugs, and adds in some needed features.
Added "Search Feature Update" from Toma.(Database Changes)
Fixed min search price bug in Toma's update.
Fixed listings_edit.php It was giving an error
Fixed update existing listings bug. Thanks Toma
Fixed update existing user bug.
Fixed sort by price bug.
Added Mortgage Calculator(javascript)
Added the new vertical-menu template
Added some new variables to common.php (company name, company logo, etc...)
Added a function to style.php to display all users except admin
Added a function to style.php to lookup a listings price(for mortgage calc)