If a picture is worth a thousand words, what's a video worth?  Coming soon is: Orodha installation videos!  Step by step instructions on downloading and installing the best open source listings manager software there is.  We hope to have an instructional video for configuring Orodha as well.  Stay tuned, we're working on it!

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  • ORODHA BETA 1.1
    I don't care if only problem will be with default template - I always use custom templates. Might there be some other problems with upgrade?
  • ORODHA BETA 1.1
    you should, there are changes however with the includes/js I believe tom left all that were there so the old templates would work but the new default template I know makes use of Jquery and js differently so alway make a backup. There is no automatic update available.
  • ORODHA BETA 1.1
    I have 2 or 3 sites running Orodha 1.1.1 - will I be able to upgrade them? Because now the newest version is 1.1??

August 1, 2010

Orodha 1.0 is being released today! Sunday August 1, 2010, in the download area.

  • Now designer friendly! Including dynamic body classes and hundreds of new id's and classes throughout the system.
  • All new front end template is now 100% valid XHTML - the first valid XHTML in the programs history!
  • Faster than ever before with included code to gzip, unset etags, and control cache for massive speed boosts (including a 65% compression improvement) - Scores an "A" in YSlow
  • All new templates added including the super useful "pages_main.php"
  • All template pages are now "php" and the default template uses includes for super easy site maintenance!
  • Many javascript enhancements, including inline delete confirmations, drop down admin tools and more.
  • All new maps feature with instant switch to street view - as standard!
  • Default template is super SEO friendly out of the box
  • Integrated drop down menus, which update dynamically with new classes via all new menu tags!
  • Finally proper support for agents and favorites viewing.
  • Confusing "user" templates renamed and adjusted for "agents"
  • {isfavorite} support extended throughout all areas.
  • All new install procedure, much more user friendly and includes server checks, and no need to configure before use.
  • Default template to be tweaked and improved on a constant basis, especially with regards to search

PLUS!

  • Orodha does not phone home - no license manager
  • Not encoded - always open source
  • No requirement to display logo on web site

This is just the beginning of Orodha. In our very next release we will be implementing Youtube for listings!  Each listing will have a template tag for a Youtube video to show off your listings. There will be many more upgrades to come.  Thank you for allowing Orodha to serve your listing needs.


Release Summary
3 Feature Dynamic body classes
10 Feature Update Patches
11 Feature Have install check server requirements
13 Feature Default Template
17 Feature Delete Sample Data
20 Feature CKEditor
21 Feature Jquery Google Maps
26 Feature Open Realty(R) 2.5.8 Migration
27 Feature Admin Template
28 Feature Template for user added pages
30 Feature Installation procedure, many upgrades
31 Feature Titles required for some pages
41 Feature Improved SEF for Agent, Pages, Listing


Summary description
Dynamic body classes: Tags added {page_id} {page_action} {template_in_use} {user_name} {user_first_name} {account_type} {browser_type}

Update Patches: an auto updater from the admin screen has been created so just a few clicks and it copies the new files and makes any necessary changes to the db and config files.

Have install check server requirements: Installation script will check server requirements and make recommendations for users.

Default Template: Many improvements to templates for designers.

Delete Sample Data: Option for users to quickly and easily delete sample data from installation.

CKEditor: Added CKEditor as editor for Orodha. Used in the page editor and on text areas within the listing editor.

Jquery Google Maps: Implemented jquery google maps into the Orodha core. Includes street view on listing detail page and automatic geocoding if listing doesn't have latitude / longitude data already.

Open Realty(R) 2.5.8 Migration: relatively easy migration to Orodha 1.0.

Admin Template: All new admin area layout.

Template for user added pages: instead of page1_main, page2_main, etc. Orodha users will have a pages_main. The code looks for pageX_main and if it doesn't exist, uses pages_main, and if that doesn't exist, uses main.

Installation procedure, many upgrades:
# Auto deletion of install folder for security
# Auto check of server setup
# Auto folder permissions
# New layout for install procedure (valid)
# Streamlined installation procedure

Titles required for some pages: "My profile" and "View agents" pages now render a title.

Improved SEF for Agent, Pages, Listing: sef for agent, pages and listings. They now show as agent/ listing/ page/ when seo enabled in admin area.

New Tags

{class_view_menu} - produces unordered list of links to the search results for each class

{class_search_menu} - produces unordered list of links to the search pages for each class

{listing_details_map} - shows the google map with street view on the listing detail page

{search_results_map} - adds a map to the search results. Can also be used in content pages to show a map of the first page of listings that you would see on the view all listings page. The number it shows would be dependent on the number of listings per page setting.

{featured_listings_map} - shows a map of the featured listings

{add_del_favorites} - shows either the add or delete from favorites link depending on if user has listing in favorites

{add_del_favorites_url} - shows either the add or delete from favorites URL depending on if user has listing in favorites

{listing_images_colorbox} - adds slideshow that opens in a popup lightbox


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June 26, 2010

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Orodha is a fork of Open-Realty® 2.5.8.  Orodha, launched on Jun 26, 2010, is currently being constructed by various volunteers from around the globe.  We are currently working on this project 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, collectively as a team with development team members in Germany, Spain, United Kingdom, and the USA.  Orodha 1.0 will be in the Download area after many changes are complete.  2.5.8 is currently in our SVN where we are working hard on many modifications to make it a leaner and better product than ever before.  Would you like to see our round the clock updates as they happen?  Please follow us on Twitter and watch the specific SVN actions happen as we make the changes, or check out each update as they happen on Orodha RSS RSS HERE.

 

Have a feature request?  Tell us what it is HERE and we'll see about getting it added to Orodha as soon as we can.  Get your requests in fast because we have several in the queue at the moment.

 

Please keep checking back as we hope to have a newest modified release very soon - always free and open source.  Thank you for visiting, and we hope you become a part of this growing community.  This will be the friendly Open Source community for listing software.

 

-- Orodha: Swahili for "List"

Orodha tshirts real estate listings

Orodha 1.0 (hear it HERE) is a stand alone Open Source Listing Manager package, and is a fork of Open-Realty® 2.5.8.  It is all you will need for a professional listings web site out of the box.  For additional functionality, you could use a variety of free or commercial addons.  For more sophisticated sites you could use Orodha in conjunction with CMS's such as Joomla 1.5, or Wordpress.  To use Orodha with Joomla, for example, you would need to install CMS Realty found in the Joomla JED.  There is complete community support for using Orodha with Joomla (using CMS Realty) or Wordpress in our Support Forum.  If creating a real estate web site, there are also addons for RETS and IDX.

 

Take a peak at some different sites created with Orodha.  You can create sites to market a list of Services, Holiday Rentals, Real Estate Listings, Cars, Clothing Lines, Cakes- the possibilities are endless.

 

 

What better way to demo Orodha than to visit a production site?  Go ahead and give it a spin:

Services

http://www.proactsinternational.com

Holiday Rentals

http://www.gorentspain.com

Real Estate

http://www.calidainternationalproperties.co.uk

Clothing Line

http://www.surfanic.es

Cakes

http://www.cakefinder.co.uk

 

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+7 #1 Cliff 2010-06-25 18:32
This has been a long time coming. Good to see someone picked up the project.
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