Migrating from Listings Manager

Hi Wevolutions,

Yes, you'd need to manually re-enter the data. We don't have an LM import script for CMS yet.

Other options would be:

- To manually extract the flat file listings database into excel, then into CSV, then into MySQL. This requires a bit of skill and doesn't re-load the images but will get the content. You'd have to re-upload the images.

- Have us (or someone else) write an import script for you as a custom programming job (contact me at dave@interactivetools.com if you want to discuss that).

- Hire some cheap outsourced labour to do the data entry for you (such as http://www.xceeditsolutions.com/)

Hope that helps!

Will CMS Builder have the same search functionalities and listing capabilities as Listings Manager? And will the php scripting in CMSB have less load on the server than the search.cgi script in LM?

Yes, it has the same functionality. Many people use CMS Builder for Realty and Listings sites.

And yes it will have less load on the server than LM because it uses MySQL.

Hope that helps, let me know if you need anything else.