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Posted by Yan Kozlovskiy
Yan Kozlovskiy
Courses Plus Student 13,773 Points

Anywhere I can learn IDX development for real estate websites?

I would like to learn how IDX is developed. Does treehouse offer this? IDX stands for Internet Data Exchange and it's used on real estate websites to display property listings from the MLS service. Currently, the IDX on real estate websites looks outdated. I want to make my listings look presentable.

Also, how could it be possible to show information just with one link? Do I use the link tag in my HTML? Wouldn't that just link it to the site and not display the search boxes?

2 Answers

James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points
James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points

You can check this out for the backend programming to get the MLS data through IDX

https://www.flexmls.com/developers/getting-started/

In order to make listing look presentable you need to change the style you do that with CSS, you can learn all about that here in the Learn HTML & CSS learning adventure.

Yan Kozlovskiy
Yan Kozlovskiy
Courses Plus Student 13,773 Points

Thanks a lot for your input! I'm going to read and learn as much as I can. The IDX system consists of a link "http://subdomain.example.com" I don't get how that's supposed to display the search system rather than a link to the site. I don't get how I'm supposed to add the link. The <a> tag is only designed to display text and point to a location to another place. I feel like I need to develop a pretty good crawler/text injector to achieve what I'm looking for. I know I'm wrong, but it's one way I can see to tackle this problem. I looked up a video on youtube and they just added the link and it worked. They f the time horgot to mention their website was specially built. It's something I wish to learn and don't know how to do, yet.

Again, thank you very much for taking the time to help me!

Adi Taropa
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Adi Taropa
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Adi Taropa
Adi Taropa
Courses Plus Student 1,728 Points

@James Barnett that seems to be another developer offering an API on their platform. Is there a resource on the MLS board that would allow a developer build a "bare metal" independent integration. Just with the IDX Platform of that particular MLS, non reliant on any other developers and add on fees?