SW for visitors to upload pictures and descriptions.

[Doug Stewart]

I am creating a site to sell property. I would like to be able to give estate
agents a userid/password which would allow them to upload photos (of houses)
and text (house descriptions) to my site. I would like to be able to edit the
results or delete items. It needs to be dead simple or I won't be able to set
it up and the estate agents won't be able to use it. What SW package should I
use?

Ideally it would be a free package, but I could spend a couple of hundred
dollars. I could not spend thousand of dollars.

I believe that www.french-property.com has an off-the-shelf package for much
of this, but don't know what it is (I mention this as I suspect the clever
people on this board could look at the site and tell me).

Ideally, I would also like to store the results in a database (SQL???) so
that I will have the future capability to search on the information.

Thanks for any suggestions and for your consideration in reading this.

Regards, Doug Stewart

 

[Johny]

Spent about 3 days sifting through the different options to allow users to
upload files to our site. The one thing I learned is you
get what you pay for. The choice that best suited our needs was
http://www.perlscriptsjavascripts.com/perl/upload_pro/index.html(about $150)

Try a Google search using "cgi scripts upload files real estate" and you
should find some designed specifically for real estate. I can share some
features that you probably want to look for. The script referenced above
wasn't the first one we bought. We spent about half the money and got about
1/10 of the features. The 3 biggest features we never thought of until
trying to implement the script were:
1. Customizable user registration forms.
2. The users uploaded files automatically update their own personal web
page, which can also be customized by you.
3. Fully customizable user interface. The first script we bought had a lot
of grammatical errors in the interface, some of which we couldn't fix.

I don't remember any of the options I looked at storing the user uploads
directly into a database but I may have just overlooked this feature.

Good luck in your search