How do you add/customize Features?

Hi DarrylR,

Let me check with my developer to find out what kind of effort is required here. I think a writeup on how to do that would be helpful, since the last owner didn’t have that.

Longer term, we probably want to have something that gives you a full form capability–adding fields of your choice and so on. That’s where we’re heading, but let me see what I can get you now.

Here’s what my developer said:

There is no way to do it without changing the plugin’s code. I don’t like to write about how to alter the core, but here it goes:

Add the new feature to the $re_features global variable

Open the privatefunctions.php file and look for $re_features = array. Then add entries for the new features. The numeric index of each feature is important; that’s the value that gets stored in the database.

After I added a new Tennis Court feature, the array looks like the example below:

$re_features = array (1 => __('Pool', "greatrealestate"),
            2 => __('Waterfront', "greatrealestate"),
            3 => __('Golf', "greatrealestate"),
            4 => __('Condo', "greatrealestate"),
            5 => __('Townhome', "greatrealestate"),
            6 => __( 'Tennis Court', 'greatrealestate' ),
        );

To make things easier later, lets define a constant to store the numeric index of the new feature:

define ( ‘DARRYLR_GRE_FEATURE_TENNIS_COURT’, 6 );
Update template to show the new feature

You have to update both theme/great-real-estate/listing-excerpt.php and theme/great-real-estate/listing-page-content.php and add the following code:

if ( get_listing_hasfeature( DARRYLR_GRE_FEATURE_TENNIS_COURT ) ) {
    $third_line_attributes[] = __( 'Tennis Court', 'greatrealestate' );
}

after

if ( $has_town_home ) {
    $third_line_attributes[] = __( 'Townhome', 'greatrealestate' );
}

The results

By now you should be able to see something like the screenshots below:

https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/45068/10166294/f84d6cf4-6688-11e5-8f12-dbac9e96f22f.png

https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/45068/10166307/03770e6e-6689-11e5-978b-675c084da9f2.png

Ah, thanks for the detailed instructions. Please let me know when you’ve added this capability to the UI.

Thanks!