Community Portal Scripts.....

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I am considering starting a community niche portal and am looking into two different scripts at the moment.

PHPizabi

and

PHPfox

PHPfox costs $300 and looks pretty solid. PHPizabi is FREE, open source and also looks pretty solid. Im not sure that I want to throw $300 on a script that will perform just as well as a free script.

Have any of you all used either or used any others that are worth mentioning?

Any suggestions on which to use?

or comments?

Thanks Jer
 
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I've been waiting for the PHPizabi Alicia release for the community script. It is said to be more robust and faster than the current PHPizabi script - it uses new code I believe as well. It's slated to come out on Oct 2nd so not too far to go.
 
This is what I have done with Izabi so far, Im trying to make a 100%CSS template, but its been a bitch!

http://mediaswim.com

I still have to figure out how to intergrate an existing phpBB forum into it :?
Tryed a mod, but didnt work for shit.

MediaSwim has been one of my hobby/passive sites.
 
Dolphin seemed pretty good.

I'm looking for a lighterweight one. And neither of those ( paid and free ) seemed to fit. All are heavy loaders by the look of it.

And me too, waiting for the release of Alicia.

I have heard that some use Joomla + Community Builder, and Drupal + some sort of plugin/mod to build a similar social networking sites. Anybody has experience with that?
 
^ Be careful with Dolphin. There's alot of "hidden costs", etc. involved with that script.

My first SNC was built using Joomla! and while I love Joomla! - I'd have to say "never again". lol It's great as a CMS but Community Builder makes it bigger and clunkier, IMO.
 
clenard said:
I always love those types of reviews... so helpful vs. the hundreds of reviews stating the opposite.

Why not give insight to those who may be interested in it? What site have you used PHPFox for?
Click to expand...

sure thing buddy :)

"phpFox is not that great, I would not buy it personaly, I bought it for a client who was too impatient to wait for a better script and I needed to justify the $800 web design fee, but if you take a good look at the code (for the coders out there) you will see that it's very messy and the structure is horrible, what does that translate to you, the admin?
It translate into you spending more time sending fix tickets to support and asking people who will most likely charge you a leg and an arm to fix your script, than actually building your website, DO NOT try to upgrade either without having to check in at the forums for the many bugs you have to manually fix before everything works fine.
The backend (admin menu) is just very primitive and a pain in the ass, it reminds me of phpBB forums, where things are very simple yet very robust and functionless.

One high point in the recent 1.1 release which only gives you half the headaches the first version used to give you and it comes with a semi-robust and primitive vBulletin integration, it costs $300, too expensive for a script that to be honest with you really sucks...."

source: http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showpost.php?p=1472039&postcount=1
 
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