How To Create Your Own Social Network using PHPFOX ~ Crocksz

Number of social networking sites are increasing every day, but it doesn’t stop people from creating another one. There is always a requirement for creating a niche based social networking site. For example, if you have a college, you can create a social networking site, which is solely for your college members and students. Or you can create a community driven social networking sites for your locality, interest or anything which help users to connect with each other. Today, I will be talking about PHPFOX which offers you the quickest way to create a Social networking site of your own, and you can easily manage it too.

Details and overview of PHPFOX Script

“PHPFox” is a great social networking script, built in PHP & MySQL. Phpfox is very easy to use, you don’t need to do any coding and other complicated stuffs like that, just install this script in your webserver/web host and you’re ready to go

See the demo of this script here- http://demo.phpfox.com
See the customized version of it here- http://assamforum.com
To view the administration panel demo, visit here- http://www.phpfox.com/admin-demo/

Features of PHPFOX

This Script has got lots of features, and here are some of the notable features:

Easy to use Administration Panel
Ability to run advertisements & earn lots of money
Ability to easily integrate with CDN (Content Delivery Network) to boost the speed of your website
Server Load Balancing
Mobile Website (webpages for mobile with smaller screens)
AJAX Browsing & Search
Ability to Install new apps/games
Easy to use CMS (Content Management System) & Theme Manager
Multilingua l(You can Install many additional language packages)
Marketplace, very similar to ebay. Where users can list their items
Account Privacy (very similar to facebook eg; blocking, privacy level, etc)
Timeline, very similar to facebook
Ability to add/create blogs, photos, forums, videos, music, polls, quizzes, events, etc
Additional Third Party features, that you can add later- video chat, radio, TV, Arcade flash games, user map, advanced marketplace, advanced photo library, documents, jokes, etc

Screenshots-

1. Timeline

2. Ajax Homepage & Search

3. Responsive Mobile Website

4. Default Home (with no customization)

5. Admin Panel

6. Site Settings

7. Manage Advertisements

8. Site Stats

9. Manage Users

Package Variations and pricing

The features of PHPFox defers with the type of package, there are 3 packages available-

1. Lite Package, contains the basic phpfox package, with no extra features
2. Network Package, contains the basic phpfox package and some extra features
3. Community Package, contains the basic phpfox package, all the features, extra plugins, and extended support

**The community package is the best of all that includes all the features that you want**

Webhosting Requirement for using PHPFOX Script

These are the basic requirements for running this script

Apache or NGINX Web-server
PHP 5.1 or later
MySQL 4.1 or later

How To Build Social Network using PHPFOX Script on Your web-server

Installation of PHPFOX script is straight-forward, and here is how you can get it done:

Download the PHPFOX package from the site (Link), and upload the script to your server’s home directory via FTP.

1. Just type the URL in any web-browser-

http://yourwebsite.com/install , then it will take you to the installation page

which looks kinda like this, then click “Proceed to next step”

2.Next, you’ll be granted to provide the database Configuration. enter the details and click “Proceed to next step”. On your live server, you can follow this tutorial to learn how to create database manually on a cPanel hosting.