Development of A CakePHP Based Social Networking Community Website

Client Brief

The client wanted us to create a new social networking website with features like Facebook login, managing the user profile, connection, follower, wall, etc. He also wanted us to sync login functionality of this website with his existing website Natopia.com.

Our Endeavor

Working on the project, our team employed CakePHP, MySQL, technologies to build the desired results. This website is managed in English, Spanish, and Portuguese language. It allows the user to login using his Facebook credentials else the user can simply register to activate his profile. Photo system will display all the albums created & photo uploaded in member system. This social networking website allows users do following:

Send friend request

• Know about their followers and members in the area
• Recommended or add reviews
• Share profile
• Invite connections besides importing Facebook contacts
• View photo/album and add Facebook comment
• Upload photo in photo system in a specified category
• Browse photo by category, photo of the week, and the most popular album

We imparted admin functionality to enable admin do following:

• Create/edit/delete users
• Add category & subcategory in photo system
• Manage all the banners and menus in photo system and member system
• Manage static page content

Technology/Platform

My SQL, jQuery, CakePHP

Industry:

Media & Entertainment