Dolphin Pro - Social Network Platform Reviews

Excellent project

Looks amazing and can't wait to use it! However the download is completely missing these required files; plugins/htmlpurifier/standalone/HTMLPurifier plugins/htmlpurifier/standalone/HTMLPurifier/DefinitionCache plugins/htmlpurifier/standalone/HTMLPurifier/DefinitionCache/Serializer plugins/htmlpurifier/standalone/HTMLPurifier/DefinitionCache/Serializer/CSS plugins/htmlpurifier/standalone/HTMLPurifier/DefinitionCache/Serializer/HTML plugins/htmlpurifier/standalone/HTMLPurifier/DefinitionCache/Serializer/Test plugins/htmlpurifier/standalone/HTMLPurifier/DefinitionCache/Serializer/URI

Awesome, as a web & print media business owner - so happy to have found Dolphin. It will be an invaluable tool for Social community.

I am using this system for a client who wanted it to be configured to use as a financial social network type system and i am very happy with the result, cannot praise it enough although more flexability in the poll module would help that would be my only criticism. <a href="http://www.creativewebfusion.com">good affordable website design</a>

Have used this more than once , a couple years apart. Both times, I found the programs buggy, the support questionable, and project organization scattered. We also encountered numerous serious security holes. Sorry, but I'm surprised that SourceForge would even list this. It may be "open source" in the strictist sense, but it is such an obvious marketing gimmick it's ridiculous!

OpenSource means the source is open and everyone can modify it ! Also Dolphin 7 is 90% rewritten and a lot of better than previous versions!

Why boonex is a scam? Boonex problem nr1. No coding standard Boonex is writen by several people using different technologies. Its main base (Dolphin) is writen in pure php with its own template engine and forum (Orca) uses xlst. That has large negative impact to integration of forum in site and site in forum. When coding, please use single technology and template system. Whats even worser, different parts of dolphins code itself is writen by completely different people, and very in the hurry. So everyone has its own imagination how to interact with different parts of the code. It is very tricky to modify code that way to suit site needs. Boonex problem nr2. Template engine and separation of code/design/database This problem in dolphin/boonex needs a point on its own. Boonex uses custom template system ( that should be called layout system). The blocks of generated html code are pased to specific places in the template. That creates a big headache for programers as they need to search through code for the place where some box is generated. It might be generated in template, or in specific function in one of numerous includes. And so on. Even pligg has better templating than this. It is very tricky to rip boonex templating apart, as whole coding is based on such poor programming practice. They would be better off using existing template system like smarty or similar one. This leads to problem nr3 Boonex problem nr3. Crapy use of Database We saw serveral other competing sites launched on boonex, but we did not care much. Why? Becouse when they reach 500-1000 daily visitors they will break apart. The reason for it is very bad programming and use of database. For example, boonex uses profile builder which assigns fields to profiles. So the output of profile uses more than one table and is quite inefficient. Also, there is a nice 20-30 query overhead on each page display to fetch all the configuration values from table. Silly, isn’t it ? They would be FAR better of using a file for configuring sofware or caching it in php file like it is done in most of the systems. Another simple problem. When boonex wants to display a profile being online it additionally check database for its status. But that data was pulled from database already. So 20 useless queries again. Resume I would not suggest using boonex if you want to keep your programmers sane. We have have changed the code almost completely for now, and you will need to do that too. Boonex is a scam.