MLS listings are an unusual creature, but I must say the folks at CAAR have done a great job with the tools available via IDX feed.
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I’m currently building my platform to integrate the CAAR IDX feed into a Charlottesville Realtor’s website and I am very excited about the opportunities here.
There are several challenges to incorporating the CAAR MLS IDX listing.
- listings are fed via text files, so you must have programming skills to move this information into a database
- listings must be updated daily per CAAR rules so you’ll need a cron job to update the tables
- you must have familiarity and skills building and managing both a database (e.g., sql) and programming know how to create the user interface (e.g., php).
All-in-all this is not a project for the novice web designer and I’m glad to report I’ll have an operational integration up and running in a couple days.
More to come soon – I’ll update my portfolio section with a link once the realtor’s site is complete.
Update … here