Archive for the ‘RETS/MLS Revolution’ Category

ZGRets | A PHRETS Develpment

May 8th, 2011

Since I began web design in 2004, I’ve always been curious as to the integration of massive online databases, such as auto dealerships and realtors. My curiosity finally led me back that direction and I’m happy to say, ZGRets was born. Sure, building a PHP RETS connection by myself would have been suicide, and far too complex for the time line I had to complete my project, so I found PHRets – an open source PHP solution to interacting with an RETS server. The cat[...]

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IDX vs RETS: The Revolution Begins

June 7th, 2010

Let’s be candid about one thing. IDX was the solution every realtor needed about 10 years ago. Sure, it was better than all the hands-on work that was done to compile and display local MLS data, but as technology advances there comes a time to say goodbye to the old and in with the new. Enter RETS.

Sure, we at ZakGraphix are thrilled at using a language that is a million times more developer friendly and flexible, but that is not the primary reason we recommend its in[...]

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