Hello, As most of you know I am a DNN newbie(joomla refugee). I believe I made the right move. But, I find the biggest weakness so far is the "social community" aspect of DNN in comparisons to some "off the shelf" products (that usually crash) or what I have found in Joomla.
So far, I have found two products that run in DNN that I would deem as a "social" networking module system. I like them both equally and, even though their over all use is the same, they are very different.
My only concern is this. Most dating/social community sites have a more advanced search feature.The social community modules for DNN allow you to search 1-4 item(s) at one time. When an "average" dating program may have 10-40+ search options to filter with at one time.
Here's an example:
Let's say this guy wants to find:
Single
Female
ages 25-35
slim
non smoker
and lives 30 miles away from his zipcode?
Since this question, I have done nothing but study all the combinations of modules that a "newbie" could use for this sort of thing and I wanted to ask you all your opinion on what would be the best solution.
Option1- I frame a good dating program into DNN and "call it a day"(ignore any sore of integration)
Option 2- The above, but use a registration module with special skills that will help the dating script and DNN communicate with each other, back and forth.
Option 3- If one of the other for mentioned DNN modules are open source. Modify them with a more advanced search feature.
Option 4- User a registration and user directory module to make a custom social website. Hire a programmer to complete a homepage and members display page. Maybe even use one of the two mentioned modules as the "homepage/profile" location to display the output from the user directory.
*** With all the above mentioned, which modules would you choose?***