The goal of this project was to create a complete real estate component for Joomla 1.5 using ExtJS framework. Watch out for search engine friendly URLs even for dynamic search results. There is an admin side for managing the whole component. Real estate agents and normal users have separate logins and separate priveleges.
The ExtJS framework provided ready to use components which made the website look very professional without putting any effort on the aesthetic side of development. When the user first reaches a website which uses this component, he will be greeted with a google search like homepage where he could choose the city to search. Optionally, one could specify the number of bedrooms in the house, and the type of apartment to further filter the search. Once the search button is clicked, the search results are displayed using a sortable , paginated EXTJS grid component, which will show a small thumbnail of the apartment and also give you other details. There is a small slider at the bottom of the results which will help the user scroll through the different of paginated results. Clicking on any of the results will open the detailed view, where a small photo gallery of the apartment is shown along with more details about it.
The administrator’s section will allow the admin user to add properties along with the photos. These photos are cropped to the right aspect ratio and then compressed to various sizes and stored in the server.
Google latitude is a great way to share your current GPS location with everyone. You can put up the google location badge on your blog and let the world know your exact geographical location.
But the latitude badge does not provide the exact address of your current location in terms of the area names but shows the exact location on the map. Google latitude badge shows only city level address along with the map. So I decided to write my own small PHP script to print out the exact address instead of an approximate one which is shown by default. You could use this code coupled with XMPP integration to show it as you google talk status message (a tutorial and script for this..sometime later)
