Its been a while since I’ve had a chance to blog so I felt it would be worth mention today on my return to drop a little note about a new visual interface for iCheckRETS.

iCheckRETS is a co-developed project by founder / originator Tony Russo, Gary Little and Jared Ritchey. The project is available free of charge via this blog or on the RETS.ORG website.  What iCheckRETS is designed to do is simply connect to a RETS server, query and then retrieve listings in a CSV formatted file.  Although downloading RETS data in a CSV is the most common method used to date, many developers are opting for a direct DB insert from the RETS data.  iCheckRETS variants are capable of doing this now as I’ve developed a few that were simply used to maintain MySQL tables for Offices and Agents where the data is directly inserted into those tables.

What we have discovered over the past several years is that many users of the iCheckRETS package find setup and configuration confusing so we set out to build a relatively simple visual interface where all settings are stored in a database table as opposed to an XML file.  The furtherance of this development is due to be wrapped up sometime in the next few weeks and will be available free of charge.  Anyone competent with setting up SQL queries can easily navigate to the documented areas of the script to fill in the blanks so to speak. An example is laid out in the source code that connects to a simple database on the client side and the Variaman RETS server over on vieleRETS.org

I’ll keep you posted!