Basic social networking

da_mic_1530

da_mic_1530

da_mic_1530

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I'm going to be looking at a project early next year and want to get a feel / early start for directions I can go in.

Part of the area my team are looking at is that of social networking aspects

Now I'm sure a few of you may remember me, I'm slowly building up a basic knowledge of PHP

Anyway I can get a user to register and all that gubbins

Any pointers as to where to look / articles to read

I'm not after a opensource app that can do it all for me, I want to write the PHP code myself. I want it very basic. I.e you log in and your page is displayed , can view your own photos and an area which displays your friends

With my well "lack" of indepth knowledge, would it be better to heavily modify an opensource alternative
 
Lucero said:
IMO no, you wont know where to start and personally I think in order to edit any kind of code you need to understand it in case you fudge it up.

Download XAMP and crack on with some tutorials.
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jus having a look at "Dolphin" think I'm just going to edit the PHP code and wrap my site around their PHP, looks reasonable to understand:)
 
I'm confused, as far as my understanding goes, I just install the script, providing I have the correct Apache servers etc

Goes of to read the readme again

Just to confirm, I'm talking about using and customising partuza , getting it up and running, then going back and developing my own
 
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arr I see so partuza isn't actually a social network, its creating plugins for the partuza platform, if thats the case I'll stick with more common PHP / MYSQL opensource options to modify, like "Dolphin"

That said I'm highly interested in what you have linked me to, and will be reading up over the next few weeks, the project is to be finished next year in april, so I have time to learn something along the way:)
 
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Ah yeah, Partuza needs Shindig to run and is designed for developing Opensocial applications. Shindig provides the 'container' for applications - it does all the hard work of connecting a social network's users with the Opensocial API. Partuza is simply an example social network front-end that has been written to work with Shindig.

I was just suggesting that it might be a more interesting idea to create an Opensocial app, rather than a complete social network. I don't have any recommendations for out-of-the-box social networking sites.
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so moving the discussion on, Could I say

Create A Partuza like clone using my own code

Thus leaving me with a collection of files combined with SQL data that I can upload to my webserver and run/link to my current website

If so this leads me to my next question

Will creating an opensource app be within my skill level , (which is low but developing) and is this a well documented area
 
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