Social Networking Application

Overview

This is the social networking era. We tried to bring social networking to the emerging Web 3.0, and it wouldn't be wrong to say we did it successfully. This web application bridges the gap between people across nation and cultures and makes them celebrate diversity.

Challenge

An American client contacted us to develop a Web 3.0 social networking site. The application was supposed to have features and functionalities of a modern day social networking website such as globalizing network of local communities where people from different cultures can gather around and organize various cultural events. The events celebrate cultural diversity and invite you to discover and experience ethnic foods, wines, art, music, languages and most importantly people from around the world that live in your own community.

The motive behind developing the social networking website was to bet the people closer and celebrate human social gathering.

Key specifications were:

• Customizing a Drupal module having high end features
• Deliver a consistent Chat component that provides the necessary chat functions and improves user performance and communication speed
• Provide a multi language support

Solution

SOI came up with a terrific solution that provided desirable features and functionalities like:

• Profile Management:
• Mailbox
• Friends' List
• Birthday and events management
• Filtered and precise search and match
• Create and join user groups
• Create, host and manage events
• Travel guide
• Information of various destinations across the world
• Schedule travel
• Book hotels, flights and cars with search functionality
• Travel mates
• Currency exchange tool
• User friendly chat room
• Blogs and forums
• Share articles, photos, videos and reviews

The social networking website was developed that had all the desirable social networking needs of online socialites. The website covered typical social networking features in addition to functionalities like travel planning, highly efficient on-the-dashboard chat application, and multilingual support.

The web 3.0 social networking site really helped our client to achieve his motive of bridging the gap between diverse communities.

Technology

• Server:  Windows Server
• Web Server:  Apache
• Programming Language:  PHP 5 (Drupal)
• Database:  MySQL 5.0
• Scripting Language:  AJAX

Statistics

• Back end:  1 database, 191 tables
• Front-end:   251 page

Team

• Team Leader:  1
• Developers:  3
• Web Designer:  1
• SQA:  1