Free Text Search Engine for the Irish Estate Properties using the Daft.ie API.
The Engine translates what the user are looking for and transforms the input string into a string requests and then will send that request to the Daft.ie API.
The script also offers the voice speech recognition thanks HTML5 & JavaScript speech-input.
In this script, I use:
- PSR0 to PSR4 coding standards
- Formatted/documented code
- DRY (Don't Repeat Yourself) principle
- OOP code (including PHP Interfaces & Traits (PHP 5.4 specification)
- spl_autoload_register (which is very useful with PHP namespaces)
- View/Controller pattern
- Singleton pattern (even if not necessary...)
- PHP alternative syntax for the template (which makes the visibility easier)
- Class member access on instantiation (PHP >= 5.4)
- Short Array syntax (PHP >= 5.4)
- Using SOAPClient
- 2 or 3 bed to rent between 1000 and 2000
- 3 bedrooms to buy in Dublin
- 2 or 3 beds apartment to rent in Cork around 400 and 600 euro
- 4 bedroom house to let in Galway for 1000 around 900 and 14000 per month
- Search Type (Rental/Sale)
- Price (Min-Max)
- Bedroom (Min-Max)
- Property Types (house, apartment, site)
- House Types (terraced, semi-detached, detached, end-of-terrace, townhouse)
- Retrieve Areas from the API
- Retrieve Counties from the API
- Each search term has its own Class and is getting back by the "Parser" class and included by spl_autoload_register() SPL function
- HTML5 speech-input search
- Displayed the property results thanks to Daft's API
In addition of using the PSR and PHP Pear, I use my own for the naming of the variables
Here are the variable prefixes:
- a = Array
- i = Integer
- f = Float, Double
- b = Boolean
- s = String
- o = Object
- m = Mixed
- r = Resource
- c = 1 Character (I used only sometime that, as char is not a PHP valid type)
Following the "letter type lower case, the variable name is in UpperCamelCase (e.g., $aMyVariable)
Application Server PHP 5.4.0 or higher.
PHP Extension SOAPClient
- A Valid Daft API Key
I'm Pierre-Henry Soria, IT developer and passionate about e-businesses and marketing.
You can by email at pierrehenrysoria [[AT]] gmail [[D0T]] com
The script is under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license or later; See the LICENSE.txt file.