I know this thread is old,

Jennifer333 — Sun, 29 Oct 2017 15:24:00 +0000

I know this thread is old, but I want to share my experience as I've just finished building a real estate website. I used one of the website builders among those on http://www.webbuildersguide.com/website-builder-categories/real-estate-website-builders/ for this purpose. As they are created specially for this kind of sites and don't require any coding knowledge, it is easy to work with them. Also it should be mentioned, they are available for free. I hope this information will be useful for someone!

Thanks guys. Going down this

serpico — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 23:21:13 +0000

Thanks guys. Going down this route will raise the issue of live data. At the moment when staff update details on their local system, they hit 'publish' which updates the XML feed on the server.

Should this then force an update of the DB or should this be done via a cron say every 24hrs as pr0gr4mm3r suggests.

pr0gr4mm3r, did you code that in php? If so, I'd be interested in taking a look at your code if that's ok?

Agreed with pr0gr4mm3r,

JeevesBond — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 12:08:00 +0000

Agreed with pr0gr4mm3r, parsing into a database is the best way of doing this.

There is an MLS listing module for Drupal, but it needs some love by the looks of things. It might provide you with some initial ideas on how to go about creating a solution to your problem though.

Yeah, putting all that data

pr0gr4mm3r — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 02:39:44 +0000

Yeah, putting all that data into a database is your best option. The last real estate website I did included parsing 30,000+ listings from some massive CSV files. I wrote an importer script that feeds the data into a database every night, and then the website pulls from the database as needed.

I was not able to find a solution already available, but writing one wasn't a problem.