#67 portal and individual sites

[Richard K-M]

I would like to be able to set up several agents under
their own domain using phpwslistings and from their
individual domains (ie www.agent1.com) display their
listings, then from a seperate domain (ie
www.portalsite.com) display the collective listings of all
agents - thereby generating a portal site.

[Wendall Cada]

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We are looking into doing this for the 0.4.0 or 0.5.0
release, i'm not entirely sure how this will be implemented
as of yet, but it is planned.

[Richard K-M]

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Thanks for that feedback. A few thoughts
1. Table prefixes may be one way to implement this system
with each agency having an assigned prefix
2. For each class the administrator will have to nominate
mandatory fields and the portal search should only be against
those fields - regardless of prefix. This ensure multiple
databases will not need to be opened by the server to search
3. Can paypal be incorporated into the system to sign up
new agents?

[Shaun Murray]

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I wonder if you could do this with normal phpwebsite branches?

Each Branch site has it's own database, themes etc but a hub site
could perhaps pick up the branches data and present it all in one
place. Images should be relatively easily picked up off the branch
sites also.

[Shaun Murray]

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I hit SUBMIT too early. I always have my best ideas after.

I mentioned in https://sourceforge.net/tracker/
index.php?func=detail&aid=769977&group_id=73598&atid=538277
that I'm subverting phpwsListings to use as a shop website by
adding a shopping cart.

This branch/hub/portal thing coupled with a cart would mean you
could run lot's of shop sites and one huge super portal shop site
and do price comparisons if they all used the same product id.
Hmmm. ;-)

[Richard K-M]

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The flexibility of a portal site and individual sites is endless -
as you have just noted. I am not sure if branches can be
used - however as changes to the portal site SQL is required -
I am assuming as a novice sql programmer you can eassily
include/exclude tables (and therefore databases) with given
prefixes and am not sure if the issue is complex? I have yet
to be able to get full documentation on bransches to
understand fully how they work