A new service for Jomres Sites

A few weeks ago we ran a survey at jomres.net and one of the results of that survey was that a good percentage of Jomres users would appreciate a "Super Property List" that their sites could register with, enabling them to enhance the visibility of their properties and businesses on the net.

to that end we have introduced this new website

All Jomres 2.0 license holders and above (excluding demo version users) can use the service. To do so, you simply have to download and install a minicomponent that allows our Gafian server to connect with your Jomres server. Once installed a script runs that requests details of your published properties (currently property name, address and details) and sends them via xml to our server where they are stored on the Gafian database. Your property details will then be available to search and view on gafian.com. If a visitor requests further details of your property then they are re-directed to the property details page on your own site for the property they have clicked.

The service is currently free for a standard listing and although we may offer enhanced listings in the future, this is yet to be decided. The only thing that we ask is that you maintain a link to the gafian service on your Jomres pages (this will be added automatically by the minicomponent, you don't need to add it yourself).

If you install the minicomponent and then change your mind and do not want your properties listed, then all you have to do is uninstall the minicomponent from your site and your properties will be removed. You are in control of whether your properties are listed.

To get the gafian minicomponent, log onto your account at jomres.net and view your license downloads. All full/solo/development license holders should see a download called gafian.zip. Download this and install it via the component installer on your Joomla/Mambo site. There should not be any problems installing this on a live server as no changes are made to the Jomres database tables (standard component data is added to Mambo/Joomla tables) but it is good practice to always backup your server before making changes.

Technical Details

On installation your server will contact ours advising us of the md5 hash of your license key number and your mosConfig_secret. Once the license key has been confirmed as a valid number our server contacts yours asking for your published property details and each property is added to our property list. Your server is then polled from time to time to keep your property details up to date.

The secret is hashed and passed back to your server every time contact is requested. This prevents other people from abusing the system; so do not share your mosConfig_secret with anybody. 

The gafian.zip file is open source, so you are free to extract the files and view the code therein. We request that you DO NOT change any of these files. If you have a bug/problem please contact us using the ticket system.

As always, feedback and comments are welcome.