I am currently on sabbatical and working on getting my site where I want it to be before I return.

My MLS provider is REInfolink. My understanding is that I can get MLS from them working on my site.

View my site at www.soldbyrobert.com

I use the content manager PHPNuke to run my site.

I have a variety of things I want to do from a look and feel standpoint, but I want to work out the technical side first.

So, here is what I am looking for:

- Slideshow of listings on front page that meet some search criteria I define.
- Ability for registered users to search the MLS, save those searches and have results notices sent to them. I just want the basic info with link back to my site emailed so that they return to the site to see the details. Site would keep track of what homes the user looks at.
- Users can select frequency that they get email updates (Twice daily, daily, weekly, monthly)
- Users can request to see property with one click (send me a notice).
- I can add additional pictures relating to a specific property.(Only need to do this with my listings)
- I can add more information on properties that are my listings.
- If the status or price of a property changes that is already in a users search, the user gets an email notifying them of the change in status or price.
- Be able to link to pages that will show properties that meet search criteria I have created.
- Allow users to rate their interest (1-10) in a property
- Allow users to categorize properties, IE: viewed, to be viewed, etc.

Thats a quick breakdown of what I am hoping to accomplish so far.

I suspect that the best way to do this integration is going to be to create a module/block that works in PHPNuke.

Anyone have ideas here? Feedback? Suggestions? Anyone think they can accomplish this? If so, get in touch.

Thanks,
R

Typically, MLS data is proprietary information, and can only be utilized according to the boards policies. You'll need to engage those to see how you can obtain, then utilize that info. For instance, can you download the full database, can you query then download. Once downloaded, what are your freedoms and guidelines in displaying the data.

Many boards use a third party who wrap a service around the data, then sell it back to the agents. The services may include framed searches, prospect registration/notification, etc.

Constructing a system for your own listings, and possibly your brokers would not be too hard as you have the data. The difficulty is your right of use for the board data.

Hello,

For that I would think is best to hire a Programer/Designer to do the things that you want.

Good Luck

Everything I listed in the first post is allowed.I had similar features in an old web site.

According to the REInfolink folks, I can do either 1)Download the database or 2)Do a live inquiry to the MLS system.

I guess my hope was that some one with the programmer/designer skills would be lurking around here.

Thanks,
R

Check http://www.rapidx.org. It is a concept for an open source RE listing management objects that can be paired with and/or incorporated into existing CMS applications. It is still in the early stages but it appears to be a good fit with what you are looking for.

Thanks frobn, this looks very cool.

Luckily for me, I have quite a bit of time to get things going. But it looks like they might have something I can poke around with this month.

Thanks,
R

Mabey this can help you too. http://www.open-realty.org . If you have a hosting account and the control panel is cpanel 99% of the time it has this program ready for you to install with a click of a button.

Good Luck

Yeah... I have tried that one. It's fine (and correct me if I am wrong here) but there is no link to an MLS service. It just will present whatever you manually have entered.

Thanks for the heads up.
R

open-realty acts upon it's own database. You could however import your MLS data into the database.

Generally,

You could go one of two ways; download the entire database, or, construct queries and only download the results. If you used the later approach, then your resident database would only contain your contacts/prospects.

Although you would require interfacing scripts, the application leans more toward efficient databasing.

Emailing is a specialized script group and luckily there are several robust apps that make the effort to tie into phpnuke and other popular cms.

Your prospect database module could opt in/out contacts. Along with required info, each contact would describe thier contact criteria,ie; homes for sale, notify on changes, twice daily, particular subject line, price range, ...

Your query module could now build mls database queries based on the prospects criteria, submit the query, saving results for use by your emailing module.

Your emailing module would do just that.

You could wrap the whole thing up using phpnuke as an access verifing portal. A server resident timer (cron) to intiate activity would put it into motion.