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copycat website

by sunnygc
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Hi
I'm looking to get a custom website built that has similar functionality to something like realestate dot com dot au.

What I mean is a person can join the mailing list and when a new property is added that meets 4-5 criteria, then an auto email at a specific time gets sent to all those who have added that as their criteria.

To make it even simpler, I only need one criteria to be met.

Can this be done via wordpress or drupal (preferred) and for a complete customer built solution, what sort of budget would I be looking at to get this type of site outsourced and built?
#copycat #website
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    Off hand the best way I can think of doing it as follows:
    1. Build the site in WordPress
    2. Create the signup form which users sign up based on certain criteria and details saved in a database
    3. Have someone write code which will loop through the database and check users and criteria against listings (but also noting who has already been notified for a particular listing so they do not get notified again)
    4. Have a cron job kicked off hourly to do #3 above.
    Programmatically that's how I'd do it. But I can't tell you if there is a WordPress plugin to do that.

    As for pricing, as this stage it's a question of "how long is a piece of string". Until there is a lot more information and functionality specc'd out, it will be very difficult to determine a price.

    Is it literally a clone of the above site?
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