Introduction to PHRETS

In an effort to gauge interest and some early testers, I wanted to announce a project I've been working on for a few months.

PHRETS is a PHP library written for RETS. This library adds easy-to-use PHP functions for working with RETS.

My experience with RETS and real estate data in general is from a 3rd party "data consumer" role so the initial release of this PHP library is sort of targeted to that. As time goes on and more feedback is received, it may branch into different directions to offer a much more complete set of tools and features for using RETS.

I'm also fairly new to PHP myself so these functions are being written from a PHP "newbie" which should be easy for anyone remotely familiar with PHP to work with. The current code being developed is already passing the RETS compliance test so it's just a matter of cleaning things up and offering some better features and usable functions.

I've posted some introduction material at http://troda.com/projects/phrets/

If you're interested in being an early tester or being notified when I have some source code to release, sign up for the PHRETS mailing list (Google Group) and more information will be released as things develop.