Open-Realty

10-08-2004

We are proud to release a new design for the open-realty.org site.

Open-Realty 1.X 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.
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.
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

Open-Realty 2.X Features:

User frontend is validated to XHTML 1.0 Strict and CSS 2. (version 2.0)
Full multilingual site support. (version 2.0)
New Graphical Administrative Interface. (version 2.0)
Built in WYSIWYG page editor for modifying non database pages. (version 2.0)
New Easy Installer to reduce setup time. (version 2.0)
New Map system allows administrator to select between yahoo or mapquest maps. With more map options coming soon. (version 2.0)
New Easier Template System (version 2.0)
New Search engine that is faster, has been tested with over 5000 listings.
Backend code rewriten in a object orriented method. Code is no much cleaner and easier to follow.

Commercial Add-Ons

With the release of open-realty 2.0, Transparent Technolgoies and some partner companies will begin offering commercial add-ons and templates for open-realty. Check back here after open-realty 2.0 final is released.

Credits

This is a list of people who make this project possible.

Lead Developer and Project Coordinator:

Ryan "greengiant" Bonham - A former system administrator and software developer, Ryan became lead developer for open-realty in late 2002. Ryan left his full time job and founded Transparent Technologies in the fall of 2003.

Community Developers:

Mick - A full time law enforcement officer and late night programmer, Mick has written a number of open-source add-ons for open-realty, including the virtual tour add-on which is now part of open-realty 2.0.

Lloyd "RealtyOne" - Lloyd or RO as we have come to call him, has written a large number of open-source add-ons for open-realty and has been a active member on the support forums. Unfortunately, he has had to focus his time on other things in his life, and has not been able to be as active with the project as we all wish he was.

Mike "LTP" - Mike is a fanatic when it comes to code structure and xhtml specifications. He keeps the rest of us well aware of our mistakes and has contributed thankless hours of testing and coding to the development of 2.0.

Zac "The Sandking" - SK is a great programmer and a valueable member of the support forums. He is by many considered the MLS guru, and has a commercial MLS Import solution based on open-realty 1.X avaliable.

Former Project Members:

Jon Roig - Jon was the founder of the open-realty project. He has since moved on to other projects and we wish him the best with what he is doing. We hope Jon returns to open-realty some day; his ideas are what started this great project.