By Vigile on

I am curious if anyone has recommendations for me as I look towards a new Drupal-based site and trying to integrate a lot of features common to social networks like Facebook into it.

Is there a frame work that has been previously developed for Drupal that might be a good place to start or is this something that we'd have to develop from the ground up?

Just to be clear: we aren't looking for implementation with existing social networks, but instead would like to create a new community for a specific group of users.

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bonobo’s picture

bonobo commented

You should probably check out this group:

http://groups.drupal.org/social-networking-sites

Cheers,

Bill

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yelvington’s picture

yelvington commented

The keys are:

* Profile module
* Buddylist
* Some hard theming work

There is not, so far as I can determine, a satisfactory solution to allow commenting on profiles while allowing granting the profile owner the ability to remove posts. The guestbook module would be a good place to start, but it needs an extensive cleanup and rewrite.

The activity module would be a good place to start for the "updates" view that Facebook provides.

strangeways’s picture

strangeways commented

For alternatives to the Profile module, check out the excellent user profile tutorial at http://shellmultimedia.com/misc/user-profiles

I used an older version of the tutorial (version 1) and it worked well.

Vigile’s picture

Vigile commented

I looked around at the suggested areas....still nothing that seems like a good solution for what we want to do. I did find socialengine.net that looks good but integrating it with Drupal looks even more complicated.