No worries. IDX Information you get from the MLS directly. They are very strict about their feeds, so you'll have to talk to them about their terms and conditions and how they allow you to access their information. The RETS[1] feed is slowly becoming the standard, but again, it varies.
To start, I'd just have it simply be a form the agent can fill out. I think Zillow might have an API, but you'll just have to put on the site that the data is from Zillow. A small price to pay for a huge convenience for the agent.
I used Akismet to weed out spam posts. I didn't want to implement a captcha, I set up a javascript honeypot as the first defense but Akismet was the second defense. It was great, because it allowed for "Mark as spam" "This is not spam" options that you can contribute back to the Akismet engine to make it smarter, and it took about an hour to implement in PHP...super easy and a great selling point.
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No worries. IDX Information you get from the MLS directly. They are very strict about their feeds, so you'll have to talk to them about their terms and conditions and how they allow you to access their information. The RETS[1] feed is slowly becoming the standard, but again, it varies.
To start, I'd just have it simply be a form the agent can fill out. I think Zillow might have an API, but you'll just have to put on the site that the data is from Zillow. A small price to pay for a huge convenience for the agent.
I used Akismet to weed out spam posts. I didn't want to implement a captcha, I set up a javascript honeypot as the first defense but Akismet was the second defense. It was great, because it allowed for "Mark as spam" "This is not spam" options that you can contribute back to the Akismet engine to make it smarter, and it took about an hour to implement in PHP...super easy and a great selling point.
[1]: http://www.rets.org/ (Looks like their website is down)