What is the best software or script for building an online social network with ecommerce integration?
karl asked:
I would like to build a site that sells my products but also has a full user community.
I would like to build a site that sells my products but also has a full user community.
You might look at Atlassian Confluence and some of the third-party plugins that are available for it. For example, you could take the base Confluence Wiki product, add their Jira product for customer service support tracking, add the Community Bubbles plugin for forums and to allow your visitors to share their favorite portions of your site/other sites, use the workflow plugin to integrate with an e-commerce application, etc.
Alternatively, you could consider mixing any number of open-source systems such as MediaWiki, phpBB, Mantis, osCommerce, etc. to custom build.
It depends how much you want to spend..
And or – how much you want to program on your own..
A low cost and decent social network PHP Solution is the Dolphin.
But this decision really depends on what you are selling and the theme of your site – before i can give good advise i’d have to know that..
You want to build it, or you want to buy a drop-in solution that someone else built?
If you want to build it yourself, use Notepad Plus. If you can spend a few dollars, I prefer Edit Plus.
You build a website with a text editor. (You do the graphics with a program like GIMP.)