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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. It is unable to run on Windows-based Web servers as it requires the use of CHMOD permissions. It was created by the 'Boonex' company and has been around for 5 years. It was built around the 'famous' (according to pr.com) internet dating script 'aeDating' although it has been superseded by Dolphin 5.0 (newest revision 6.0) as AEwebworks Dating Software Development Ltd.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 although user-made modifications do cost. Dolphin is one of five products that Boonex offer including:

  • Orca - An Ajax-based Forum script that is either standalone or inbuilt 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

Boonex's latest build of dolphin is 6.0 released on September 4th. It is codenamed 'Lightning' after a Dolphin that the Boonex team adopted from the Whale And Dolphin Conservation Society.

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

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 downfalls when working with slower servers.

Orca

Orca Interactive Forum Script is a free and open source forum system using the PHP scripting language and MySQL database software under the GPL license which is fully integrated into Dolphin. Frontend is fully AJAX - based. Orca also features self-moderation (ala Digg) features. Connects to any website user's database and can also be run as standalone.

References

Orca

ja:Dolphin Smart Community Builder