FN-FORUM: Social Networking Scripts?

date posted 10th May 2008 15:16

Hi,

It's Saturday afternoon and rather than trying to clear up some of my
work backlog which is what I should be doing, I'm thinking of new site
ideas (that'll make me millions ;) and I'm toying with an idea that I
registered a domain for recently and have come to the conclusion rather
than spend hours/days/weeks writing my own code for a social networking
type site, I take some off the shelf code and use that as a base.

So, has anyone got any recommendations for social networking scripts,
I'd prefer the free route, but if it's not too costly I'd also consider
paying for it. I will probably want to add to the code, and have decent
control over the layout etc, I'm not 100% on features yet but stuff like
news posts, blog posts, forum, picture ratings, groups, friends lists

I've come across a few so far:

http://www.phpizabi.net/
http://www.phpfox.com/
http://www.boonex.com/products/dolphin/

I've seen mention of a few that link into joomla/dupal etc too.

Any others worth a mention, anyone built any social networking sites
recently ?

Thanks

Martin