Boonex Dolphin smart community script

Boonex Dolphin Smart Community Builder is a free and open source Social Networking system using the PHP scripting language and MySQL database software under the GPL license. Recent versions are able to run on Windows-based Web servers (older version required the use of CHMOD permissions and so were limited to UNIX-based systems). It was created by the 'Boonex' company and has been around for 5 years. It was built around the internet dating script 'aeDating' although it has been superseded by Dolphin 5.0 (newest revision 6.0) as AEwebworks Dating Software Development Ltd. had now changed ownership to the BoonEx Group. The original script cost $690 however the Dolphin scripts are free due to built in adverts for Boonex products, custom templates are however allowed to remove these. Recently, after the release of version 6, Boonex have adjusted the advertising, allowing users to download the package with or without them. However the non advert package will only work when a correct licence key from Unity is obtained.
Dolphin is one of five products that Boonex offer, including:
*Orca - An Ajax-based Forum script that is either standalone or built into Dolphin
*Ray - A community widget suite, including A/V messaging, MP3 player and more in a web interface
*Shark - An enterprise community platform
*Barracuda - A collaborative directory software script (no longer distributed or recommended)
Boonex's latest build of dolphin is 6.16 released in 2009. It is codenamed 'Spunky' because of its newest features.
History
*aeDating 2.1 - June 24, 2004
*aeDating 3.1 - July 17, 2004
*aeDating 3.2 - January 21, 2005
*aeDating 4.0 - July 13, 2005
*aeDating 4.1 - November 2, 2005
*Dolphin 5.0 - April 25, 2006, This revision marks the Boonex takeover of AEwebworks
*Dolphin 5.2 - August 22, 2006
*Dolphin 6.0b1 - June 14, 2007
*Dolphin 6.0b2 - July 10, 2007
*Dolphin 6.0b2.01 - July 11, 2007
*Dolphin 6.0b2.02 - July 12, 2007
*Dolphin 6.0b2.03 - July 13, 2007
*Dolphin 6.0 - September 1, 2007
*Dolphin 6.1 - April 29, 2008
*Dolphin 6.14 - ?
*Dolphin 6.15 - ?
*Dolphin 6.16 - 2009
*Dolphin 7 Beta 7 - October 9th, 2009
*Dolphin 7 Beta 7 -April 28th,2010
Features
Dolphin has Basic Social Networking features e.g. Profiles and blogs. The package relies on a language system that is controlled via an Administrator. The language files contain any language variables in the site so the user does not have to modify source files. This package revolves around PHP and MySQL. Reliance on MySQL has limitations when working with slower servers.

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