SocialEngine 3.10

Right out of the box, your social network will offer nearly all of the features found on today's wildly popular social networks.

Several plugins can be acquired separately and will extend the platform's functionality with Photo Albums, Blogs, Groups, Events, Chat, Classifieds, Polls, Music, Video.

Here are some key features of "SocialEngine":

User Profiles:
· Multi-part profiles
· Customizable profile fields
· Dependent profile fields
· Regex field validation
· Keyword links
· Birthday fields
· Personal photos (avatars)
· Profile privacy
· Comments
· Custom CSS styles

Network Structure & Customizability:
· Subnetworks
· Several friendship structures
· One-way or two-way friendships
· Verified or unverified friendships
· Friendship types (titles)
· Friendship explanations
· Public/private sections
· Custom privacy levels
· Signup by admin invitation
· Signup by user invitation
· Customizable signup process
· Email messages

Frontend, Look & Feel:
· Template engine
· Global CSS styles
· No copyright notice
· Portal page example included
· Multi-language support
· Search engine friendly URLs

Anti-spam Features:
· Email address verification
· Random password generation
· Automatic "CAPTCHA" images
· Inappropriate content reports
· Simple user management
· User banning
· Word censors
· Blocklist

Private Messages:
· Message inbox/outbox
· Message limits
· Conversation history
· New message notifications

Browse/Search:
· Separate MySQL database
· Immediate indexing

Other Tools:
· Email announcements
· News announcements
· Comprehensive statistics
· Access log
· Bundled "PHP/Flash charts" class

Requirements:

· GD 2.0
· mod_rewrite (optional)

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

New features:
· Data caching (file-based or memory-based with memcached) has been added to reduce MySQL server loads
· User login is stored in PHP sessions instead of hashed cookies for increased security
· New site statistics code in home.php can get statistics from plugins (will require next releases of plugins)
· Plugins can be re-ordered in the admin panel to affect lists such as the My Apps menu
· A captcha can be displayed on the help_contact.php page to prevent spam
· A captcha can be displayed on the login form, either always or after a certain number of failed logins (Admin Panel->Banning & Spam)
· lang_print and lang_sprintf now support preload, assign, and print parameters (see changelog for details).
· lang_sprintf now accepts the args parameter (see the vsprintf() function on php.net). This is required for the group and event media comment action feed link fixes (will require next releases of those plugins).
· Admin interface language can be changed
· The display name is now kept in the users table to ease retrieval and allow the addition of generation methods in the future
· Language packs can be imported from or exported to files for easier editing and transfer.

Bug fixes:
· Fixed "Operation aborted" errors in IE caused by Tips initialization
· Action feed shows no text due to ASCII control characters or utf8 characters in the action text
· Action feed has incorrect link for group and event media (will require the next version of these plugins)
· Action media will now be cleaned out with the action items
· Database lockup problems sometimes seen on higher volume servers that is caused by updating user_lastactive
· The first and last name fields' max lengths will default to 30 characters for new installations. An option for 30 was added to the admin panel as well.
· Javascript errors in admin panel caused by differing format of $global_plugins array have been fixed.