Friday, September 7, 2007

OpenRealty

OpenRealty 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..

Features:
User frontend is validated to XHTML 1.0 Strict and CSS 2.
New Graphical Administrative Interface.
Built in WYSIWYG page editor for modifying non database pages.
New Easy Installer to reduce setup time.

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