Introduction

The Divine Home - Laravel Real Estate Portal Pro is a comprehensive, feature-rich solution for creating a real estate portal with Laravel. It's a popular and widely-used template that offers a wide range of features, including property listing, agent management, and user registration. In this tutorial, we will guide you through the step-by-step process of setting up and customizing the Divine Home - Laravel Real Estate Portal Pro.

Prerequisites

Before starting this tutorial, make sure you have the following:

• Laravel installed on your local machine or a remote server
• Composer installed on your machine
• A text editor or IDE of your choice
• Basic knowledge of Laravel and PHP

Step 1: Installing the Divine Home - Laravel Real Estate Portal Pro

To install the Divine Home - Laravel Real Estate Portal Pro, follow these steps:

1. Open your terminal and navigate to your Laravel project directory.
2. Run the following command to install the package:

   composer require divinehome/laravel-real-estate-portal-pro

3. Run the following command to install the dependencies:

   composer update

4. Run the following command to publish the configuration files:

   php artisan vendor:publish --provider="DivinehomeRealEstatePortalProRealEstatePortalProServiceProvider"

5. Run the following command to migrate the database:

   php artisan migrate

Step 2: Setting up the Database

Before you can start using the Divine Home - Laravel Real Estate Portal Pro, you need to set up your database. Follow these steps:

1. Open your database configuration file (config/database.php) and update the database connection settings.
2. Create a new database for your real estate portal and update the database field in the config/database.php file to point to the new database.
3. Run the following command to create the database tables:

   php artisan migrate

4. Run the following command to seed the database with default data:

   php artisan db:seed --class=RealEstatePortalProSeeder

Step 3: Configuring the Settings

Before you can start using the Divine Home - Laravel Real Estate Portal Pro, you need to configure the settings. Follow these steps:

1. Open your config/real-estate-portal-pro.php file and update the settings as needed.
2. Update the title and description fields to reflect your real estate portal's brand and identity.
3. Update the currency and price_format fields to reflect your portal's currency and price formatting.
4. Update the agent_management and property_listing fields to reflect your portal's agent and property listing settings.

Step 4: Customizing the Templates

The Divine Home - Laravel Real Estate Portal Pro comes with a set of pre-designed templates that you can customize to fit your portal's brand and identity. Follow these steps:

1. Open the resources/views directory and navigate to the real-estate-portal-pro directory.
2. Update the layouts and components directories to reflect your portal's brand and identity.
3. Update the property_listings and agent_profiles directories to reflect your portal's property and agent listing settings.

Step 5: Customizing the JavaScript and CSS Files

The Divine Home - Laravel Real Estate Portal Pro comes with a set of pre-designed JavaScript and CSS files that you can customize to fit your portal's brand and identity. Follow these steps:

1. Open the public/js directory and navigate to the real-estate-portal-pro directory.
2. Update the main.js file to reflect your portal's JavaScript code.
3. Open the public/css directory and navigate to the real-estate-portal-pro directory.
4. Update the main.css file to reflect your portal's CSS code.

Step 6: Creating a New Property Listing

To create a new property listing, follow these steps:

1. Open the routes/web.php file and add the following route:

   Route::get('/property-listing', 'PropertyListingController@index');

2. Create a new controller file called PropertyListingController.php in the app/Http/Controllers directory.
3. Add the following code to the PropertyListingController.php file:

   
   namespace AppHttpControllers;

use IlluminateHttpRequest; use AppPropertyListing;

class PropertyListingController extends Controller { public function index() { $property_listings = PropertyListing::all(); return view('property_listings.index', compact('property_listings')); } }

4. Create a new view file called `index.blade.php` in the `resources/views/property_listings` directory.
5. Add the following code to the `index.blade.php` file:

Property Listings

@foreach($property_listings as $property_listing)

{{ $property_listing->title }}

<p>{{ $property_listing->description }}</p>

@endforeach

6. Run the following command to create the property listing table:

php artisan migrate

7. Run the following command to seed the property listing table with default data:

php artisan db:seed --class=PropertyListingSeeder

**Step 7: Creating a New Agent Profile**

To create a new agent profile, follow these steps:

1. Open the `routes/web.php` file and add the following route:

Route::get('/agent-profile', 'AgentProfileController@index');

2. Create a new controller file called `AgentProfileController.php` in the `app/Http/Controllers` directory.
3. Add the following code to the `AgentProfileController.php` file:

namespace AppHttpControllers;

use IlluminateHttpRequest; use AppAgentProfile;

class AgentProfileController extends Controller { public function index() { $agent_profiles = AgentProfile::all(); return view('agent_profiles.index', compact('agent_profiles')); } }

4. Create a new view file called `index.blade.php` in the `resources/views/agent_profiles` directory.
5. Add the following code to the `index.blade.php` file:

Agent Profiles

@foreach($agent_profiles as $agent_profile)

{{ $agent_profile->name }}

<p>{{ $agent_profile->bio }}</p>

@endforeach

6. Run the following command to create the agent profile table:

php artisan migrate

7. Run the following command to seed the agent profile table with default data:

php artisan db:seed --class=AgentProfileSeeder

**Conclusion**

In this tutorial, we have covered the step-by-step process of setting up and customizing the Divine Home - Laravel Real Estate Portal Pro. We have also covered how to create a new property listing and agent profile. With this tutorial, you should now have a basic understanding of how to use the Divine Home - Laravel Real Estate Portal Pro and how to customize it to fit your real estate portal's brand and identity.