Working on massive updates to MLS module

We encourage users to post events happening in the community to the community events group on https://www.drupal.org.
awjrichards's picture

Hi everyone,

After a long hiatus from working on the MLS module (http://groups.drupal.org/node/12419), I'm back at it and working on some massive updates/improvements to the module. If any of you have tried to use it, you probably know that it's super confusing, very difficult to use and incredibly fragile. To address these issues I'm overhauling how the module interfaces between VieleRETS and Drupal.

In the original module, I heavily modified some code from VieleRETS to auto-magically allow listings to be turned into nodes from a relational database (RDB) target in VieleRETS. This has proved to be problematic in a number of ways, and this way of doing things is the primary culprit for the aforementioned problems. My plan for moving forward is to separate the module from VieleRETS (in part to make the module more version-independent of VieleRETS - right now it doesn't work properly with the 1.1.6 stable version of Viele), and rather than requiring that you use an RDB target, the module will convert listings from an XML target to your Drupal database. This will result in easier, more intuitive usage as well as less overhead (the module is currently /very/ memory and processor intensive).

If anyone is a developer and is interested in giving me a hand, please get in touch with me ASAP. If anyone is interested in seeing this module in action, stay tuned! I anticipate releasing a stable version of this module by the end of October or beginning of November.

Thanks,
Arthur