Social Network - Development Pt. 1

At Current:

The Social Network is slowly progressing and its features are very very slowly being implemented and tested for the functionality. As it currently stands the Profile Data and Friends are in place on the Profile but have to be edited through the database as no Edit Page for the profiles have been built yet.

Profiles are now automatically protected to everybody except people on your friends list. A simple "this profile is private" message is shown on attempts to view a private account. This can be turned off or on via the User Control Panel (UCP). A users details in their profile if under the age of 18 are all automatically hidden to everyone, including friends with future access in the UCP to disable the details which you want to show. This can be done to specific types of people, eg: friends, everybody.

Although the details on a private profile are hidden, some little detail is given such as the users nickname and their avatar. The rest including comments is hidden.

The login system is fully functional a updates the database based on your last visit and time and redirects you to your profile on submission. Accounts for this also have to be manually added via the database due to the lack of a place of 'registration'. Registration may be one of the later objects added as it isn't really as important during the beginning testing and implementation stages.

The homepage is still a work in progress and only shows the most recent profiles created on the site. The most recent profiles created will soon be fixed to only show the most recent profiles which are both public and the user has agreed for their profile to be featured on the Homepage. Basic data of the total amount of users is also shown.


Near Future:

Some alterations need to be made to the Database, Member and Error classes to improve and clean up the code.

The next feature which will be implmented at a lower standard is the Administration Control Panel (ACP) so the site can be monitored more by the Administrators and the various Modules and the like can be set to allow or disallow as well as the content which is shown in the news and the homepage.

Alterations to the various template files also need to be made for valid html and css.

Current Lines of Code: 2231
Current Version: 0.0.2a

(as of 28th November)