I’m asking for people with too much time on their hands to test out a new real estate module I created called rListing. It’s not a heavy duty full of feature kind of module but I’m hoping it will do the job. The idea here is simplicity and ease of use. Basically something you can download install and use without having to playing around with views/CCK ... etc. More geared towards people with less experience in Drupal.

It’s not an official release, only beta 1 … probably shouldn’t even be beta yet but here it is anyways.
The demo site is: http://rlisting.netriftsolutions.com
The module can be downloaded at: http://www.netriftsolutions.com/?q=node/11

Here are a few features:
* Some of the features: add/remove/update property listing
* add open house appointment to your listing
* google map interface to your listings
* search for listings
* add to favourite list.
* email favourite list
* email listing
* featured listings

... and no there's no MLS importer ... yet (i'm currently working on that now).

cheers
k~

Comments

themegarden.org’s picture

Nice.

Some thoughts:
- you have "re-distributed" some modules included in rlisting-5.x-0.1-beta1.tar.gz (thickbox, node_images, ...). You don't need to include those modules (just in .info files put them as 'dependencies'). Also, it's common that modules folder isn't included in some-module.tar.gz (so when you extract some-module.tar.gz, it should produce folder some-module, not modules/some-module)
- as your module is released under GPL, you could commit it to drupal.org

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kenuck’s picture

Hi,
thank you very much for the feed back. I made some minor hacks to node_images and had to fix a bug in thickbox (something about thickbox and google maps). I didn't want to add installation instructions on how to change those modules ... yet.

But I do eventually plan on removing them from the download package.

I've made a request for a CVS account .. so here's hope'n

cheers
k~

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nehalmehta’s picture

I must really appreciate way it covers stuff.... It looks really great in demo site.. u must go ahead and release for drupal world...
planning to test it today...

cheers!

nehalmehta’s picture

Hi,

I would really like to add states for India, I have already added required information in user_extra.install... I can mail it to you so that you can CVS in whenever u get the account :)..

Small request.. if users are given facility to avoid mls and lid then it can be of great help for drupal developers who make websites for nations not following them...
I have changed currency $ to Rs in my instance.. if users are given that facility for changing currency then it can be very flexible...
I would be more then glad to help you to make this module still better...

Once again I really appreciate the effort..

cheers!

kenuck’s picture

Hi nehalmehta,

thanks for the India additions ... I'll PM you my email so you can send me the update user_extra.

The LID is just the node id and is a quick and easy way to look up the listing so it should probably stay but I can put in the option to remove the MLS field .
I'll also put in the option to select the currency used.

thanks again for your feed back!

cheers
k~

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nehalmehta’s picture

hi,

I have sent user_extra.install file which adds states of India... Do let me know if something does not work out :)

Do let me know if you need some more help to make this more better as I would be free today...

Cheers!

fuckdrupal’s picture

I see on your demo that you have a field for MLS#. Is the project going to have the ability to search MLS too? Or do you just regularly import properties from MLS and just have a general search? Do you know when this will be available?

bowwowadmin’s picture

I hope this will be able to use MLS IDX

may the sun be on your back and Drupal in your face.

goosemoose’s picture

Has this been made into an official project yet? I can't find it. It looks good I just want to make sure it stays that way.

Thanks

bowwowadmin’s picture

I hope it will soon I also need it for Hawaii same info as the above..

may the sun be on your back and Drupal in your face.

garytiss’s picture

Great job, thanks for this

huma’s picture

Hey K...

You really have done a great job by giving us more useful information about real estate listings.

Thanks for sharing

Kennyge’s picture

Hey Ken, Great work. I have been waiting for a year to find something like this for my drupal website: http://www.costa-rica-property-sales.com/ so that I do not have to enter every listing "by hand". Please let me know when it is ready for me to download and please add the counties and cities for the country of Costa Rica.

Best Regards, Kenny Geist

adamtong’s picture

Hi I have visited your demo site. It is great. Can you tell me how to make it step by step? What modules did you use?
Thank you so much.

neptunethemes’s picture

I'm pretty sure most of this could be accomplished with just fields and views. We have a real estate theme that has several of the same features, and essentially I just:

1) Created a Listing content type
2) Added the appropriate new fields to the content type for rental types, prices, additional info
3) Created some Views pages with exposed filtering blocks
4) Used the Gmap and Location module for Google maps integration

Other stuff like jCarousel or Views Slideshow would work for putting together a slideshow of the properties for the front page, or whatever you like. It's a bit too much to write out in detail, but I'm sure if you just put the time in you can get along way with just adding fields to a listing content type and creating views.