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Start your own social networking website with these top open source free php platform
Everyone know facebook, twitter, myspace, google plus, pinterest and linkedin etc. they have millions of traffic on their website. Have you ever imagine that you can also start such kind of community driven website without much investment and effort in fact almost zero investment all you need to pay for hosting and some customization free depend on your exact requirement.
Don’t be surprise they are plenty of open source software are available in market to create social networking website.
Here in this post I am going to share with you the list of open source social networking software that can help you to build facebook and twitter like website.
Top open source software to create social networking website
Dolphin: Dolphin is the most advanced social networking software available today to build community driven website. It comes with plenty of core features and has plenty of extensions in terms of module and plugin to extend its functionality.
Some of the notable feature of Dolphin:
| Ads | Articles | Avatars |
| Blogs | Chat | Custom RSS |
| Desktop | Events | Facebook Connect |
| Feedback | Files | Forums |
| Google Search | Groups | Memberships |
| Messenger | News | Page Access Control |
| Payments | Photos | Polls |
| Profile Customiser | Profiler | Quotes |
| Shoutbox | Simple Messenger | Sites |
| SMTP Mailer | Sounds | Spy |
| Store | Timeline & Outline | Videos |
| Whiteboard | World Map | ZIP Code Search |
Dolphin can be used to create wide variety of community and social networking website, from free membership to paid membership social website, from decent general public networking website to adult social networking and dating website.
The list of type of community driven website that you can create with Dolphin 7.1 are
| Adult | Animals | Answers |
| Art | Blogging | Business |
| Celebrities | Chatting | Classifieds |
| Contests | Dating | eCommerce |
| Education | Events | |
| Games | Groups | Jobs |
| Location | Music | Non-profit |
| Photography | Politics | Real Estate |
| Video |
You can create clone of: Facebook, Myspace, Twitter, Yahoo Answer etc.
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Technology: PHP
WordPress Buddypress:
Now a days WordPress is not just a blogging platform rather it is serving as web os platform to its plugin and there are numerous plugins that extend the feature and functionality of WordPress core and Buddypress is one of those open source plugin of WordPress that is freely available for everyone.
Buddypress is a social networking plugin that is developed over WordPress core framework the objective of this light weighted plugin is to add community driven feature and functionality in your existing WordPress based site or blog.
With Buddypress you can create wide variety of social community based website. Also there are plenty of plugins are available to extend its core functionality.
To install Buddypress first you need to install WordPress also it is recommended that you first purchase or get free available themes of WordPress and Buddypress to let it work smoothly without any hassle.
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Technology: WordPress, PHP
Joomla Community Builder
Joomla is another very popular open source CMS, it is not only CMS (content management system) but rather many developer consider it to create not only simple website but they prefer to use it as a base framework to create complex web application.
Since Joomla is a widely used open source CMS and ever growing php base framework there are thousands of extensions available to serve different need of variety of website.
Its extension are mostly free and comes in three different types plugins, modules and components to serve its different stable version which are Joomla 1.5, 2.5 and Latest Joomla 3.0.
Just like Buddypress for WordPress, Community Builder is used for Joomla to create community based webstie you can say it’s just an alternative of Buddypress for Joomla.
However there are other extension to available for Joomla to create variety of social networking website but Jomsocial is a popular among social networking extension category for Joomla.
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Technology: Joomla, PHP
StatusNet
This Php based social networking application has one single aimed and that is to create status based social micro blogging website like twitter.
So if you are looking to create twitter like micro blogging website then this is for you.
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Technology: PHP
Sharetronix
Sharetronix is another micro blogging platform to create micro blogging website like twitter but unlike StatusNet this comes in two formats one is free and other is paid.
The community version of this app with limited features and without dedicated support is free and anybody can download and create own micro blogging website.
Previously I covered an article on Sharetronix to read more about Sharetronix go here.
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Technology: PHP
Elgg
Just like Dolphin Elgg is another php based social networking CMS (Content Management System) that facilitate you to create wide range of social networking website like Twitter, Facebook and Linkedin etc.
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Technology: PHP
Anahita
It is another php based an open source social networking platform and framework that provides the building blocks for people to connect, express, and communicate.
With the help of this framework you can develop strong and robust social web application and website.
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Technology: PHP
nice list , the best is the one we create but i like buddypress for small projects !
Heya! I just wanted to ask if you ever have any trouble with
hackers? My last blog (wordpress) was hacked and I ended up losing several weeks of hard work due to no data backup.
Do you have any methods to stop hackers?
Hi, Just access http://www.w3update.com/cms/wordpress/list-of-popular-and-reliable-wordpress-security-plugins.html to see popular and most reliable wordpress security plugins to secure your WordPress website or blog.
Hi durgesh
After seeing this post I tried to install dolphin ad couldn’t make it. I figured that I need cpanel before installing dolphin. Then I found that I need to vmhyper for cpanel and the list goes on. Can u please mention how to get started to work with dolphin. I am a beginner in this web building. I appreciate your effort in this post.
Thanks
Dolphin installation is very easy all you need is a basic host with a media server and a mysql database connection, also it is recommended that before going live you should check dolpin in local machine for that you have to install ampps or wamp apache server. then download community version of dolphin to download free community version go to http://www.boonex.com/paymentprovider/payment to download trial version and follow the installation guide http://www.boonex.com/trac/dolphin/wiki/BriefInstall
to know about ampps apache to run php based website and app go here http://www.w3update.com/web-development/php/ampps-is-best-alternative-of-xampp-and-wamp.html to know more and download ampps and install
You can now also do it in Java with eXo. eXo Platform ( http://www.exoplatform.com ) is an open source social collaboration platform that is highly extensible and based on open standards. With eXo you can not only build an enterprise social network, but you can also build a website, a social intranet or a community website.
My programmer is trying to persuade me to
move to .net from PHP. I have always disliked the idea because of the costs.
But he’s tryiong none the less. I’ve been using Movable-type on numerous websites for about a year and am worried about switching to another platform.
I have heard excellent things about blogengine.net. Is there a way I can transfer all my wordpress content into it?
Any help would be really appreciated!
Dolphin is not even close to being free.