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sfumato1002
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PHP experts I have a question regarding oscommerce

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I want to build a website where users can upload houses for sale. I want the usesr to have a form to upload pictures, info and other related info for their properties.

I'm not very good at PHP but I know my way around it a little since I've been reading some books and doing some really simple newbie excersises.

My question is, can I use an oscommerce template as the foundation of this website. Since it already has the customer loggin, contact from, and my administration panel, etc... can I build the website from there. editing the PHP for my special needs. It will be a great shortcut for me I think, but I am not sure if its a good idea. Just wondering what more knowledgable PHP users think.

As a PHP newbie, its just overwhelming starting from scratch and I though by using these oscommerce templates which have almost everything I need it will be a great short cut to build the website from one of these. I don't know, maybe it is better to start from zero?. please let me know. Thank you.
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If you want to use a software package, I don't think osCommerce is the best fit for what you describe. Perhaps something like WordPress or Gallery would be better choices.
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arborint wrote:If you want to use a software package, I don't think osCommerce is the best fit for what you describe. Perhaps something like WordPress or Gallery would be better choices.
Is WordPress PHP? meaning, I want it to be PHP. or is WordPress another programming language?
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You should check out:

http://open-realty.org/

interactivetools.com has a commercial realty software, although it might be done in Perl.
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sfumato1002 wrote:Is WordPress PHP? meaning, I want it to be PHP. or is WordPress another programming language?
Yes, WordPress is written in PHP just like osCommerce is. So is Gallery. You could also look into Joomla or Drupal (also written in PHP).
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Check out sitescripts.com.
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sfumato1002 wrote:Is WordPress PHP? meaning, I want it to be PHP. or is WordPress another programming language?
Yes, it's PHP.

Here's my line of thinking for you, if sitescripts.com doesn't already have a script.

First, you'll need a CMS. If you don't have a page template already ironed out, then perhaps WordPress if for you. If you do have a page template ironed out, and don't want to customize it to fit WordPress' way of thinking then I think someone mentioned here in these forums that one should look at TextPattern. (However, he said that TextPattern needs two add-ons to make it useful. You can search these forums for that article.)

Now, do you know the concept of a gadget or widget? This is a little piece of functionality that you drop into the page to do a specific purpose. People usually drop these in either via a Javascript with a remote source (or source to another folder on the same domain's web server), or via an AJAX call (a bit harder and a bit overkill), or an IFRAME (this is used less and less these days). Anyway, you can either write these gadgets yourself in PHP and then pull them into the CMS pages by pasting in the Javascript block, or you can contract the work out.

Each of these gadgets will require an admin interface, so you can either build this yourself or contract the work out. You also have to decide whether you want the admin interface to throw all the various gadget control panels together in a menu system, or just make an exclusive gadget admin system (control panel) per gadget.

Looks like you will need gadgets in the CMS to do the listing gallery with lightbox effect, profile expansion (click a house and see a more elaborate detail on a house), etc.
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Hockey wrote:You should check out:

http://open-realty.org/

interactivetools.com has a commercial realty software, although it might be done in Perl.
Hockey! Thank you so much for those links! http://open-realty.org/ was everything I was looking for. Thanks again!
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