Re: Open Realty Fork Discovered
There are a couple of things I would like to see happen with this project:
1. Joomla CMS integration, including Community Builder integration
2. The ability to easily configure multiple sites utilizing a single database. Along this line there should be the ability to apply CSS styles to each individual site. Custom search forms should be made available for each site.
I have had to get very creative to get OR to work the way I need it to in serving multiple sites and multiple regions off of a single database. For those not familiar with the project we have local, regional, and national web sites all running of of a single listing database.
To get it to run the way I need it to run I made some changes in how we utiliuze property classes. Traditionally you would have property classes like this:
1. Homes
2. Land
3. Villas / Condos
Instead of that method I set the property classes as:
1. Site A - Homes
2. Site A - Land
3. Site A - Villas / Condos
4. Site B - Homes
5. Site B - Land
6. Site B - Villas / Condos
Now we can easily set up custom fields, searches, and listings pages based upon the site. That means we don't have to do as many core hacks or add ons, and that makes me very, verry happy.
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