19Aug UrGroups – A Social Networking Experiment
This was a project I actually came up with to do while under a mass power outage in Detroit. I wanted to dabble on exactly what would be required to build a very simple social networking site. The direction I decided to head with was a group meetup system in which people could post what they had planned for a weekend and their friends would be automatically notified. The site hasn’t been worked on for over a year as it was only a development test. The site also includes marketing material for promoting the site as well as legal and press release pages. I decided on programming the site using pure PHP, XHTML, and good ol’ javascript. A few noteworthy accomplishments are image security (capcha), email validation, registration/login, user profile, event editing, and an ajax support form… all done by hand without a CMS package.
Link: http://www.jadbox.com/urgroups/