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.