June '08: The MLS Has Left the Building

An Introduction To The Real Estate Transaction Standard

There are many PHP developers who, at one time or another, have dabbled with the MLS database, the bible of real estate and property listings. This year, the MLS has gone the way of the dodo, and its replacement is proving that the years spent wrangling that huge dataset have been hard earned and well learned. The Real Estate Transaction Standard (RETS) takes all of the data from the MLS, adds even more information, and wraps it in a shiny new (and thoroughly well-documented) coat of XML. This month, Tim Stiles will show you how to use PHP to talk to the latest and greatest incarnation of the Real Estate Industry's real-time data source.

The June Meeting will be held in our favorite location on June 10, 2008:

The Riverwalk Conference Room in the Offices at Yahoo!

1680 Glenville Drive
Richardson Texas
(Just east of Central, not far from NerdBooks.)
Please use the North Entrance.

About DallasPHP

The Dallas Area PHP/MySQL User Group

This is official website of the Dallas PHP/MySQL User Group (DallasPHP). DallasPHP is a growing user group in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area that supports the use of PHP, MySQL, and other related technologies. Our objectives:

• to provide an open community for discussion, knowledge and skill sharing
• to encourage the use of PHP both in personal and corporate environments
• to create a crossroads for those who need and those who can provide professional PHP development skills within Texas

PHP users of all experience levels are invited to our monthly presentations (where specific programming topics are discussed on the second Tuesday of each month) and to a general Q&A session which happens on the Saturday that follows the Tuesday night meeting. Meeting details can be found here.

DallasPHP currently maintains an Announcement List at Meetup.com. This list will be soon replaced by an Official DallasPHP Announcement List, maintained locally. Look for a form on this page as soon as we get the kinks worked out.