PG Social Networking Software MAY.2009

PG Social Networking Software MAY.2009 is a software which offers users high quality service including interactive, easy and attractive way to keep relationships with partners, friends, classmates and new people. With this tool, you can make your own social network and get your ready-made social networking script with all features already inside the package. Save time, money and efforts. PG Social Networking has flexible code and logical file structure. Its installation and update scripts are easy to use even for non experienced clients.

Different communication options such as online Chat and IM, emails and pokes, calls and video profiles, Friends lists and connections, groups and events, forums and blogs, Ratings and ECards, Questions and Answers, searches and services will all empower your professional or niche social network and entertain its members. Social Network Software offers Multilanguage interface and many online payment systems already set up so you can start your Social networking site on the fly.

PG Social Network script is designed for your own social network! That’s why PG Social Networking is an advanced social networking script with powerful feature list, users would expect from business social network! Social Networking script is good for developers due to its comprehensible structure and technical manuals. It is easy for beginners due to friendly interface for site administration and management. It’s pleasure for us to serve your business!

Major Features:

1.  User features
   • Interface Language Setup
   • • Possibility for your users to choose site language at registration page and view the site in that language every time they log in. Possibility to set up site language also from main page of the site
   • Site language identification by IP address
   • • Fast choice of a site language version by IP, user OS settings. System does it automatically and adds a country flag to a language name on the index page. Users can change language any time if it's wrong.
   • Login by email for site users
   • • Now your users may use their email to log into the site.
   • User Homepage Editor
   • • Available in Personal Organizer. Now your users can personalize their homepage adding their background, styles, colors, images. It's easily operated from Personal Organizer Module together with page layout (where users can switch on/off different sections at their homepage)!
   • Powerful Photo Multimedia Gallery
   • • Absolutely New Design, new rating stars and new functionality! Photo Gallery now collects members' photos (if allowed to be shown in a Gallery), uploaded in their profiles, Ratings and Voting feature, sorting by Rating or Dates. Latest uploaded photos, most rated uploads are added. Possibility to sort the photos into categories and add a photo to a certain category. Opportunity to set up permissions in Multimedia Albom to view the photos - public access or for friends only, or for registered users.
   • Advanced Video Gallery
   • • New Design and functionality! Video Gallery collects members' videos (if allowed to be shown in a Gallery), uploaded in their profiles, Ratings and Voting feature, sorting by Rating or Dates. Latest uploaded videos, most rated uploads are added. Possibility to sort the videos in a Gallery into categories and add a video shot to a certain category. Opportunity for your users to set up permissions to show their videos (in Multimedia Album) - public access or for friends only, or for registered users.
   • Adding photos from photo portals to albums. Flickr
   • • Possibility to share photos you like from Flickr - popular photo portal. Users should insert the code to add the photo into albums in the Multimedia Gallery section. The photo will appear in Photo Gallery if a user wants to.
   • Adding You Tube video code to albums
   • • Possibility to share videos you like from You Tube - popular video portal. Users should the code to add the video into albums in the Multimedia Gallery section. The video will appear in Video Gallery if a user wants to.
   • Short Registration Form at a site
   • • Now registration takes a few moments! Your new people will be able to register from the main page of the site and start enjoying all site features at once!
   • Education & Work section in user profile
   • • New profile structure to match Business social networking communities: School/college/university, Academic degree, Company types data, Networking information catalog.
   • Dual Linked Profiles
   • • Link profile option that allows your users to link their profile to their mate, beloved or their actual couple also registered at your site. Possibility to search for couples and singles, unlink and alert users on their status!
   • Linked Profile feature in Friends List
   • • Possibility to define the status of a user when he's added to a Friends List (friend, girlfriend, brother and so on)!
   • Direct links to user profiles
   • • Automatically generated direct link to a user profile. They are shown in My information section for a member. He can give it to anyone and they will be able to view his page on your site directly.
   • Questions and Answers section
   • • New design. It's a section for your site users to ask questions and get answers from other site members. Now your users will come back again and again to get their answers. Experts section included: site members can also become experts in some fields and get more contacts from that.
   • E-Cards service for site users
   • • Earn with a new service on your site! Now your users will be able to send different Cards to each other on a site: on special occasions or just to say Hi. Various e-cards, music for them, texts. There are E-Cards categories, powerful administration area and delivery alerts. E-cards are delivered into inner mailbox.
   • Lift up Profile in Search Results
   • • Your users now can pay to lift up their profile in Search Results! Payments are configured by Site Administrator. Users are paying from their account. Earn more at your Dating site!
   • Configure billing fees and membership settings
   • • Completely customizable membership types, subscription plans, prices, periods. Subscription, credits, free trial, paid trial supported. Billing includes statistics of payments from users
   • Personal Account feature
   • • Now you'll be able to allow your users fill in their account at a site and use it for additional services and membership payments!
   • Gender Mode Membership Feature
   • • Possibility to setup special Membership permissions and prices for men and women! Subscription plans, prices, periods will be applied to users according to their gender. Billing includes statistics of payments from users. You can also switch from General Mode to Gender Mode from Administration Panel.
   • Free and Paid Membership options
   • • Create free and paid groups of users and set access permissions for them into site sections. Define prices, currency and site usage periods. Possibility to make your Site absolutely free for users.
   • Limits for Emails and Uploads in permission list
   • • Possibility to set Limits on the number of uploaded files for different Groups of users, also to limit the number of Emails users of a certain group can email each other within a site!
   • Completely Free Site option
   • • Make your site completely free and accessible for everyone with one click! You can switch on/off this option from administration panel easily.
   • Free Trial Membership
   • • Promote your site and allow your users enjoy all site features for free for a limited period of time. Define yourself the trial period timeline from the administration part.
   • Shout Box Section
   • • One place which gathers all your Site members to share their emotions, opinions, or just to say hello to everyone at the site. It's an effective tool to make your users noticed at Networking Site.
   • Powerful Banner Rotation system
   • • Pre-set numerous banner sectionsBanner Sections in Flash Chat
   • Banner Timer system
   • • You can pre-set your banners stop rotation according to a timer. All changes are easily done from administration mode of Social Networking Software.
       
   • Banner Sections in Flash Chat
   • • Pre-set banner sections in Social Networking Software will allow you to place your own banners to advertise your personals site or your affiliates. Easy-to-use Banner section in admin mode won't require any special knowledge to add a banner to a site and will save your time.
   • Banner Statistics for Administrator
   • • It is added statistics section so that you're able to track the popularity of your banners on different pages of your site! Administrator is now able to check Stats any time he needs it.
   • Albums for member uploads
   • • Your members will be able to arrange all their photos, videos and audios into thematic albums and display them in their profile and in Multimedia Gallery if they wish. There's a view permissions setting (private or public) for every uploaded file that keeps your users secure.
   • Hot-or-Not Feature
   • • It's a new Photos rating system that allows your members view more photos, go through all members uploads one by one, rate more people, get more contacts and see their own rating in a site.
   • Top 100. User Rating statistics page.
   • • Your users will be able to rate others and get into Top 100 users list and view their place from a profile page and in a list itself. There's a possibility to view rating stats page and follow the popularity rate at a site.
   • Friends List and Black List
   • • Your users will be able to create their favorites list by adding other members there with one click. Profiles may be also banned and put into a Blacklist. Both the lists are accessible from a profile section. Detailed statistics at a homepage shows you whether you're at someone's Hot or Black list. Now all contacts are prohibited with a user if he is in your Black List including IM and Pokes.
   • View Friends list of a Friend
   • • Opportunity to check friends lists of your friends and add them to your own Friends list.
   • Friends Circles and Connections
   • • It's a multi level friends list structure that shows mutual friends, friends circles (friends of friends) and connections (how do I know this person). There're also friends requests and alerts to recipient before adding him to someone's Friends list.
   • Crop tool to edit pictures
   • • If non- quality photos spoil profiles, if search results look weird, your members probably will enjoy a new crop tool to create great photos for their Photo galleries and Multimedia Albums! Your members just upload the photos they have; cut out the piece they find the best, save. All is done at your site with no effort. Your users get more matches and you get more registrations!
   • Image watermark
   • • Stamp every uploaded photo with your site logo or motto. Brand your Networking Site and make it recognizable even by photos uploaded there.
   • Online/Offline user status
   • • Online or Offline indicators show up where the user is on a site at the moment. Your users can search for members who are online, chat with them, use IM to communicate. This feature helps your members make a first step to relationship easier then ever before.
   • Lost password feature
   • • Social Networking Software is developed so that it can generate and send a new password for the system to a member's outer email upon his or her request. "Lost password" link is available at a login page to help your users at a shortest possible time.
2. Users Communication
   • Various contact opportunities
   • • Afford your users a lot of way to communicate both actively and inactively.
   • Anonymous VoIP Calls!
   • • Now your users can call each other from a site. It's secure and anonymous. It is integrated Jajah voip service. It’s a paid service per calls but you, as admin, can set up your prices per minute above Jajah rates to profit with this powerful service!
       
   • Mailbox
   • • Powerful mailbox will allow your users email other members, get messages, save contacts. Alerts on getting a message.
   • Tell a Friend
   • • Allows sending a link to a profile or a page your members like at your site to their friends.
   • Refer a friend
   • • It's another way to monetize your site! Your users now can send invitations to join the site to their friends. If some of them finally come and register, referer gets some points to his acount which he can use to pay Site services or membership! Enlarge your database with this new feature!
   • Flash Chat with multiple Rooms and customizable skins
   • • New Blue Scheme to fit your site design! Powerful communication tool that allows creating numerous Chat rooms, moderators and bots. It also let your users share audio files and use smiles to express their feelings. You can also adjust the color scheme of the chat to your site design.
   • Flash IM
   • • Private messaging tool that allows adding a user to a contact list, track user status, exchange messages. Flash notifications on new contacts.
   • Gift Store
   • • Gift Store lets you organize your own Gift Shop at your Dating Site. Add capabilities of a gift shop to your dating site and give your users a superior shopping experience with all the features of the big online stores. Profit more: opening Gift Shop in your dating site is something that a lot of users take advantage of. The basic advantage of opening it is that you will have your own store on the social networking site that outlines all of your products, some services, or even items to help your users keep the spice in relationship, etc.
   • 'Order for myself' option in Gift Store
   • • Now every member can order any gift online for himself, write a note and pay from his account or using online payment systems activated at a site.
   • Personal Organizer
   • • Add more interactivity and organization to your users' profiles. Personal Organizer allows managing the Design of their Profile Page, collecting their favorite Bookmarks, creating To-do list, checking site Payments status, Billing history and counting the expenses, viewing general and detailed site Statistics! Special user help tips are added to confusing sections.
   • Events
   • • Events is a great opportunity to inform your users about all the events you consider important on your site. It can be a concert or a birthday party but it will take the attention of your users and they will probably take part in this event. This section is developed to create different kinds of events for social networking site users and encourage user communication before and after the event.
   • Forum
   • • Forum can help you creating a strong and active community, discussing important questions and problems with site members, raise necessary themes and make people come back to your Site! Get user feedback: find out what your users have to say about the services provided by you and website on the whole. Earn revenue: use this feature as an extra revenue source by placing your own advertisements on it. Enjoy attractive design, easy-to-use interface and functionality!
   • Poll
   • • If you know what your users want, you can give them better services, you can be a better company. With this section you can create a poll to understand your users' opinions and thoughts on different questions.
       
   • Blog Module
   • • Powerful blog section that allows your users start their own blogs, add images, rate other blogs and leave comments. They can also follow the posts of their favorite blogs at your site. Blog section may be used as a diary or a journal and may help your members show their personality to others and build a community around their blog.
   • Clubs
   • • Build a strong community at your Site: Groups unite people by interests and give opportunity to find the right person or just to get many friends online. Provide community unions: allow users create their own groups and sort them by numerous categories. Group moderators, news, comments, displays will make this section of your site very popular!
   • Invite friends
   • • Let your users browse their friends' lists from popular email systems (MSN, Yahoo, AOL, Gmail, HotMail) into their contact list right from their homepage at your site! After that they will be able to invite their friends to sign up for the site or to show them your site. It is designed to widen your Personals Site database with new registrations, advertise it within a certain group of people. It can be a great tool for creating a strong community at your site by means of Word of Mouth technology online!
3. Basic Functionality
   • New Design
   • • Business Social Networking desidn is integrated! New look to make your site look more professional and accomodating! Use flexible and user-friendly design scheme to build your Professional, Niche or Business Social Network. It's easy to install and edit.Make your own atmosphere at your Social Networking Site!
   • Template Based Design & Layout
   • • The only requirement for you is your knowledge of HTML and basics of PHP/MySQL. Adjustable with modern browsers and computer screen dimensions.
   • Multilanguage Interface
   • • Possibility to add new languages.9 languages available now: English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Russian, Bosnian, Portuguese, Danish and opportunity to add more languages yourself. Language files are easily editable from the administration panel. Special language files for system messages and alerts!
   • Countries, Regions, and Cities Database
   • • Choose a set of countries you need at your site and run installation script. Regions and cities will be installed together with countries in no time. Check and edit names from administration part. View location on Map feature. Wide database of locations will help your users define places they live in and indicate them on a map for other members checking their profile.
   • View Location On Map Feature
   • • Google and Yahoo Maps are integrated and available to you. If your users setup their location in country list, then other members checking their profile can see their homeplace on a map .
   • Google XML Sitemap option
   • • Possibility to switch on an automatic Site Map tracked by Google. You can find more information on this possibility here.
   • 15 Payment Gateways
   • • Pay Point (NEW), Allopass, PayPal (including Recurring PayPal), CCBill, Authorizenet, Barclays, Webmoney, Ogone, E-Gold, USAepay, Worldpay, PaySat, E-sec, iPOS and ChronoPay payment systems are integrated so you can have any number of payment providers set up. Activate your payment system from administration section, simply add your merchant information and you'll get your payments working at your site.
   • Powerful Site Alerts System
   • • Your users will receive alerts on every new Site Registration, updates in Site News section, on every Perfect Match that appear for them on your Site and on upcoming Birthday dates of Site members. It also includes notifications on registration, messages in Mailbox and password changes. Make your users informed! Bring them back to your site again and again withAlerts system! Automatic deletion of failed payments records from admin mode within a certain period of time
       
   • Search Engines Friendly
   • • Edit key words, titles and descriptions for every page of you Site to achieve the best ranks in main Search Engines! Possibility to insert Google AdWords.
   • Multiple Currency setting
   • • Possibility to setup your site currency from Administration Panel. All main currencies are available. Make sure your merchant account at payment system is set up for that very currency!
   • Help section - Users Manual for the site!
   • • It's an interactive User manual that contains hints for site users on different site options, actions, services and offers. Now your users will be able to learn main points on using your site in a very easy and fast way. This section is flexible and can be adjusted/translated into other languages from Administration Part.
4. Searches
   • Tags section
   • • This section allows your users to tag their profile with a key word or to tag other profiles in search results. Moreover, there's a possibility to view your tags, search according to tags attached to profiles. As a result, there's more chance your matches are found!
   • Quick Search and Advanced Search
   • • Search according to some or detailed parameters, search members online, new members, specify your search to online members only or to new ones, find those who have their birthdays. Updated search age range feature.
   • 'Online Now' users search
   • • Now your members will be able to easily access all users currently online at a site. The link's added to main menu.
   • Key word search in Quick Search
   • • Search by a key word. This search covers all text messages on a site: headlines, personal descriptions, comments for uploads. It allows your members find like-minded people using their own parameters.
   • Search by location (Country, City, Zip Code, distance)
   • • Search for people in a certain territory, within several miles, in your country or city. Make a zip-code search for members who have indicated this data in their profiles. Get more matches. May be very useful especially for Networking and Personals Sites with a wide range of auditory.
   • Saved Searches Management
   • • Your user can save and edit his/her search parameters. The system saves a set of features the member has chosen for any kind of search in case he/she needs them again.
5. Profile features
   • RSS Profile subscription
   • • Now your users can sign up for their favorite members! Get RSS based updates on all the changes in hot profiles and track the events.
   • "Print your profile" option
   • • Your users will be able to save their profile to a disc or print it out for offline and online social events, business meetings and your site community parties!
   • Advanced profile
   • • Multilevel profile structure that allows to cover almost all the aspects of your user personality: General Description, Work & Experience, Multimedia Album, rating, Tags. Smoother registration process- 1 step registration. User can add other fields from My profile section when logged in.
   • Detailed profile statistics
   • • At his or her homepage a member has a possibility to check the following parameters: profile completion in percentage, members who visited user's page this month, number of members online, total members, subscriptions, members who added him/her to hot or black lists, mailbox and IM messages, members who wanted to meet them and who poked them.
   • Powerful Pokes section
   • • Now your users can send each other different signs of attention by choosing images and wishes in a list you make for them in administration mode. This section is very flexible and adjustable for any community you'll gather.
   • Opportunity for a user to delete his/her profile from the site
   • • Members can delete their profile at any time. The reasons can be multiple, for example they found their love and don't want to be listed there any more. So they can do it themselves at no time.
   • Hide Profile feature
   • • Members can deactivate their profile at any time so that it's not seen at search results for new users but is visible for his Friends and community he belongs to. Let your users just be at your site and enjoy communication with people they chose!
   • Video Files Upload, Audio Files Upload system
   • • New MP3 player integrated. Opportunity to upload your favorite or personal videos, songs or recordings to your profile, compile them into multiple albums. The number and size of uploaded files are easily defined by administrator from the admin mode.
   • Video2Flash option
   • • All Browser Compatible Video Display for your users' video uploads. Uploaded videos will be displayed at the main page of the site and accessible to watch from there.
   • Note: This feature is activated only if ffmpeg setting is ON at your server.
   • Flexible and user friendly Alert system.
   • • Site news, newsletters and alerts subscription from the homepage of a user is an effective toll to give your members a choice of emails that they wish to get from a site. Users also receive notifications on new emails and IM messages.
   • Company News and RSS news set-up
   • • Brand your company and your Personals site with a help of a powerful tool like News section. It can use RSS feed to quickly update the content or you can write news items yourself and review on your Site options or updates. It's a good way to promote your site online and to inform your members on what is going on in the world and in social networking industry.
6. Site Administration
   • User-Friendly and comprehensive administration interface
   • • CSS editor and Design Template integration instructions added! New administration sections' structure, easy-to-use administration features, in build usage manuals, tips and instructions. Multilanguage feature compatible option and new design . Enjoy your Personals Site management; reach the most important sections with one click!
   • Powerful Multi Admin System
   • • Possibility add multiple site administrators, setup their own access info to Admin Mode, define access permissions to different Admin Panel sections! This feature will help you to monitor your Social Networking site more effectively with your team and to serve your clients better!
   • Powerful user moderation tools.
   • • Powerful sorting tools in User lists and Billing sections, possibility to view full member profiles content, photo, multimedia, status, membership review control, enable/disable displaying of personal user info (e.g. birthday, name, surname, and zip-code) from the admin mode.
   • Easy Logotype Management
   • • Possibility to upload your personal Logotype image from admin mode! Easy to add and change!
   • Shout Box Management section
   • • Now it is easy to monitor your shoutbox section: delete messages, edit them, check usage statistics.
   • Easy-to-navigate language files
   • • Add your own language to your site! Translate language files for Site itself and User Alerts easily using Text Tags to navigate site sections faster and make better translation for your users at the shortest time possible. New language files format.
   • Countries management from admin mode
   • • More advanced editing mode for countries list. There's a possibility to manually add a country and edit it on the same page. You still have an opportunity to use automatic script to installing countries together with regions and cities.
       
   • Add/edit/remove members
   • • Manage your user database. Track active members, delete inactive or rude ones, add new.
   • Check users' statistics in admin mode
   • • Powerful statistics page for user status, profile completion and many more with opportunity to reach users just clicking the link. Now you can view additional data on users gender and sort your users by User Groups.
   • Adjustable email verification /registration feature
   • • It can be easily turned on/off from the admin mode to fit your needs. If you activate this option the email will be sent to a user after the registration to activate his or her profile. Till then your member won't be able to use any site options.
   • Review and edit login, email, password, personal administrator's details
   • • Keep your administration information in one place in admin mode. You can edit it to prevent information loss and unauthorized access.
   • Photos Watermarks
   • • Possibility to choose Image or Text format for your site watermark!Easy to operate and setup. Make your site photos promote your brand!
   • Determine uploads settings yourself
   • • In a special section of your administrative panel you can set number of photos, video, and audio fragments for users to add into their profiles. You can also define files' size and watermark texts there. You can also setup the size of the icons displayed in a user homepage, in search results and the sizes of the photos uploaded into Multimedia Album section in a user profile.
   • Manual or automatic icons, photos, video, audio, and gallery files approval
   • • Track your users' uploads, activate or bun some that affect site mission.
   • Adult Content Approval
   • • Possibility to approve Adult Content in your users' uploads. Now you can mark some photos user uploads as Adult and restrict access to them for youngsters.
   • View profile limit (for non-registered users)
   • • Set limitations for viewing profiles in search results for guest users.
   • 'New faces' show timeline set up
   • • Very often there's a question: how long will the new user be considered a 'new face'? Everyone has his own answer. That's why now you can set this period yourself according to your site user flow.
   • Site and all additional modules control
   • • Administration panel coincides with all sections of your Social Networking Site that provides an effective and fast site moderation. Each additional module gets a new administration section after the installation.
   • Powerful in-built site sections' editor
   • • Admin can use WYSIWYG editor to create/edit site areas: Help, Testimonials, General conditions and other text pages in the bottom menu.
   • Possibility to add your own text pages
   • • Add your own text pages with a help of a powerful text Area editor in "Info Pages" section. Create and venture, inspire and educate your users in an easy way. You may also activate or deactivate a page any time you need it.
   • New Text Page Editor
   • • Possibility to use new version of WISIWIG editor in Area Editor section to edit the text pages that appear at the bottom of your Site Pages.
   • Database backup option
   • • Backup your personals site database from administration mode with one click. The script will automatically switch to your database and save a backup file at your FTP.
   • "Bad Words" control
   • • Extended Badwords file that allows you as site Administrator define symbols, words or combinations that should be banned at all sections of the Site. Social Networking Software is developed to check users text messages on bad words they use. Those words are banned. You can create your own bad words file or upload a ready made one. It is extended the influence of site Bad Words file to many Site sections (Forum, Events, IM). You can still manage the whole file from Administration Mode.
   • Date Format control
   • • Change date format to adjust your Social Networking Site for your target audience's time zone. It will allow you to avoid misunderstanding and embarrassment with your members.
   • New Registration admin Alerts
   • • Get alerts to your personal mailbox about every new registration on your site! Be informed!
   • Photo and Video Gallery categories
   • • Now there's a possibility for the administrator to add Uploads Categories for Photo and Video Gallery sections. These categories will then be displayed in Photo and Video Galleries lists and in drop downs for users to choose where to submit their photos or videos to.

Requirements:

• PHP 4.0 or greater (for PHP 5 MySQL extention should be installed)
• MySQL 3.23.0 or greater. MySQL-encoding: UTF-8 Unicode (utf8_general_ci). MySQL connection compatibility: UTF-8
• Zend Optimizer (for Social Networking Basic Version)
• safe_mode, open_basedir restriction switched off (optional but preferrable)
• Cronjobs/scheduler support
• ffmpeg support switched On (required to activate Video2Flash option at your site)
• Curl (Download version requires OpenSSL enabled), open_basedir restriction switched off (necessary for Invite Friends Module)
• SOAP extension should be Off on your server (required for VoIP calls feature)
• mod_security module disabled (for You Tube videos and Flickr photos upload, beta version)