I love building websites. In fact, I think I'm starting to fall for code itself. Taking some college courses now for Java

I was emailed Open Realty and TrasparentRETS yesterday to think what I thought and personally I think this is great that the real estate community has it's own open source CRM tool which can import your MLS with TransparentRETS. I guess you can make your own custom IDX.

Anyway, I was wondering if anyones played with either of these and if so, what do you think. There's extensive documentation and a community to back it up but wanted to see if any of you have had a go at it?

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Troy Steuwer
Office Manager / Webmaster

Panama City Beach Real Estate | Panama City Beach Condos For Sale | Panama City Beach Homes For Sale

I have been a user and supporter of open-realty for several years.

Here are some of the advantages I have found.

• excellent listing management
• good templating system
• above average intuitive for new user
• easy to modify if you have a basic knowledge of html and php
• ok forum support but arrogant moderators
• easy Wordpress, Joomla and Drupal integration

Re: Transparent RETS, you can do much better with other RETS and IDX developers.

Hey Frobn, thanks for your thoughts on the programs. Why do you think there are other, better, RETS programs out there? Doesn't Transparent RETS just dive right in and hook into the OR platform seamlessly?

In your opinion, which is the best RETS one should use if planning on developing their own IDX system? Preferrably one that uses PHP and mySQL.

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Troy Steuwer
Office Manager / Webmaster

Panama City Beach Real Estate | Panama City Beach Condos For Sale | Panama City Beach Homes For Sale

Hi Troy,

You are right transparent RETS hooks into the OR platform. The main problem is that Transparent RETS is a proprietary and is encoded. This means that if something goes wrong then you are locked in.

Tying an IDX or RETS into open-realty is not rocket science.