[Freerealty] Upcoming feature(s)

[Patrick Fleming]

Jake Ortman wrote:

> Nothing nearly that complicated, as I don't need to target it down by dates
> at this point (as that would have to tie into our reservation system, that's
> a whole other complicated animal that's already being taken care of in
> separate code). Basically, all I want to be able to do is put a low and a
> high price for a home and have searches by price will get something that's
> in that range, and not just one number.

So the original search would just pull anything in the range... you will 
"disappoint" people with the reservations system ;)? Sounds easy enough- 
famous last words.


> 
> For examples:
> 
> Home A: 150/night
> Home B: 170-180/night
> Home C: 170/night
> Home D: 195/night
> 
> A user searches for price range of 150-170, they would get A and B. They
> search for 150-195, they get them all. They search for 175-190, they just
> get B. They search for 180-200, they get B and D. 
> 
> Many homes would have the same high/low price, so I would probably just put
> the same price in both fields.
> 
> See where I'm going with this?
> 
> -Jake
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: freerealty-admin at lists.rwcinc.net
> [mailto:freerealty-admin at lists.rwcinc.net] On Behalf Of Patrick Fleming
> Sent: Sunday, March 28, 2004 2:11 PM
> To: freerealty at lists.rwcinc.net
> Subject: Re: [Freerealty] Upcoming feature(s)
> 
> 
> I'm sure it's possible. We may have to tweak the database some- 
> inevitable I'm sure. How do you see this working? Perhaps with the 
> rentals of this type there needs to be another table or two dealing with 
> dates/rate codes. How elaborate are your needs?
> 
> Jake Ortman wrote:
> 
>>OK, I came upon an idea that will probably be more applicable to my use,
> 
> but
> 
>>I don't even know if it's remotely possible. I use the software for a
>>vacation rental site (www.sunrayinc.com). Most of our homeowners have a
>>static nightly rates that we just offer discounts on, but some of our
>>homeowners have a range of rates they'll take for their home. So a
> 
> homeowner
> 
>>might be $210/night during the busy season, but $175 during off season.
>>Currently, I can only put one price in the price field, and have been
>>putting in the higher rate, to cover our butt. I would like to be able to
>>put in the range so that when people search by price, it will show up as a
>>result on searches between that range, as well as if it were a static
> 
> price.
> 
>>Just a thought, and if it's possible, dandy, as that'll make it far easier
>>to use this software on another site I'm going to be building soon (and
> 
> this
> 
>>time, I'll actually be using the agent features).
>>
>>-Jake
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: freerealty-admin at lists.rwcinc.net
>>[mailto:freerealty-admin at lists.rwcinc.net] On Behalf Of Patrick Fleming
>>Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2004 8:29 AM
>>To: freerealty at lists.rwcinc.net
>>Subject: [Freerealty] Upsoming feature(s)
>>
>>
>>Hey all,
>>Recently in working with a live site I discovered something interesting. 
>>When an agent who had listings leaves the firm, the listings remain. 
>>While there is nothing wrong with listings remaining on a site, there 
>>are queries that cause the listing to never be shown. Right now, a 
>>listing without an agent still cycles through the featured code but 
>>clicking on the image results in a failed query. ie you can never view 
>>the listing if the query doesn't find an agent since it is a joined 
>>query. For now, one 'fix' that I am working on involves a warning of 
>>sorts at the top of the admin/admin.php page which gives a link to the 
>>listing that needs to be fixed. Additional options would be to email the 
>>  broker for an office, but that would require some other additional 
>>work and may not always be the best solution (eg. when there isn't an 
>>'office' or broker as in fsbo sites)
>>
>>Check out the listing by logging in here:
>>http://www.rwcinc.net/freerealty/demo/admin
>>demo_user/demo_password
>>
>>Don't worry about messing this listing up- I have the db updated every 
>>20 minutes to add the 'offending' listing back in...
>>
>>Other ideas? I'm open... let the list crank back to life ;)
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>Patrick Fleming,
>>Lead developer Free Realty.
>>
>>PS- in case no one noticed, Jon is getting back to development of the 
>>original code that we forked from.
>>http://jonroig.com/freecode/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=1440
>>
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