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zinpin
Junior Member
Australia
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 Posted - 10 September 2005 : 23:35:30
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| Has anyone finalised any Mod that can handle online dating?< |
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Shaggy
Support Moderator
Ireland
6780 Posts |
Posted - 12 September 2005 : 07:41:26
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Speaking from experience, I have found it better to build this up from scractch with the features I required which in turn has made it easier to tweak and expand the site to meet members' needs.
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MarcelG
Retired Support Moderator
Netherlands
2625 Posts |
Posted - 12 September 2005 : 07:53:42
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zinpin ; there's no mod out there that takes care of buying flowers, building up your charmes and taking care of stalkers.... 
You will have to woo the gals yourself by means of poetry, heart shaped boxes of chocolate delivered to the door, and tons of red roses.
Sorry..couldn't keep myself from posting this  hehe< |
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zinpin
Junior Member
Australia
202 Posts |
Posted - 13 September 2005 : 01:15:39
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Originally posted by marcelgoertz
zinpin ; there's no mod out there that takes care of buying flowers, building up your charmes and taking care of stalkers....
You will have to woo the gals yourself by means of poetry, heart shaped boxes of chocolate delivered to the door, and tons of red roses.
Sorry..couldn't keep myself from posting this hehe
Marcel you seem to know SO much about this... he he I thought my best chance of finding a partner would be to set up my own dating agency... How can I go wrong then :)
Seriously though, I've started with the base code and I'm going to dedicate a few months on this. I think there's a chance that others might find it usefull aswell.
PS Shaggy have you done this b4?< |
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MarcelG
Retired Support Moderator
Netherlands
2625 Posts |
Posted - 13 September 2005 : 04:13:37
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PS Shaggy have you done this b4?
zinpin ; check out woo.ie and see for yourself. I guess you can answer your question fairly easy after a second or 2. < |
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zinpin
Junior Member
Australia
202 Posts |
Posted - 13 September 2005 : 04:54:06
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| thanks Marcel :) I should have looked at his sig ... :) I wonder if he's in the mood for sharing< |
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Shaggy
Support Moderator
Ireland
6780 Posts |
Posted - 13 September 2005 : 05:41:18
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Unfortunately not as the site doesn't belong to me but I'm certainly willing to help and provide code extracts & samples where I can.
Bear in mind, though, that the market is staurated with sites like ours and if you want to succeed, you're going to have to offer your clients something a lot different to what they can get anywhere else on the interweb so spend some time thinking about what you can offer, what you can do differently, is there a niche clientelle not currently being catered for that you can target, etc.
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zinpin
Junior Member
Australia
202 Posts |
Posted - 13 September 2005 : 06:42:37
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| Very true Shaggy, saturated to say the least. As for Niche unexplored markets ... he he that's right up there with winning the lottery. If you do have some code that you could share though I would love to see it.< |
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Shaggy
Support Moderator
Ireland
6780 Posts |
Posted - 13 September 2005 : 06:56:53
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Being as Woo.ie was built up from scratch completely, including an extensve rewrite of the forums, any code I simply throw out isn't really going to be of much use, better to make a start on it yourself and ask for help where needed so it's relevant to your needs.
As for a niche clientelle, we found a pretty large one here in Ireland with the lesbian and gay community who aren't really catered for on any of our competitors sites. We still have a bit of work to do to meet their requirements fully, but we're getting there. There are always niches there, no matter how small, that you can use to get yourself off the ground. Once you're up and running, you'll then find it easier to expand outwards, catering for a larger audience.
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“I was having a mildly paranoid day, mostly due to the
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zinpin
Junior Member
Australia
202 Posts |
Posted - 13 September 2005 : 07:14:02
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| did you start with snitz as your base? and just expanded the db to fit the rest of the fields required? or did you start with one of the existing portal solutions and take it from there?< |
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Shaggy
Support Moderator
Ireland
6780 Posts |
Posted - 13 September 2005 : 07:24:42
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Ay, pretty much started with a Snitz base and a design along with a detailed plan of what was to go on top of it and where we wanted to end up. Database and existing tables (primarily members tables) were expanded as needs be with additional tables and fields. Some elements of MeTV (such as the custom, additional member level) were pulled in to speed things up.
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Search is your friend
“I was having a mildly paranoid day, mostly due to the
fact that the mad priest lady from over the river had
taken to nailing weasels to my front door again.” |
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zinpin
Junior Member
Australia
202 Posts |
Posted - 13 September 2005 : 07:31:44
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| sounds good :) just curious, did you expand the members table with all the extra "personal detail" kind of fields or did you use a new table and link it with the original members?< |
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Shaggy
Support Moderator
Ireland
6780 Posts |
Posted - 13 September 2005 : 07:47:37
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Just expanded the members tables to add the fields I needed. Having said that, though, they probably could do with being cleaned up a bit with some items (such as personailty, etc.) moved to a seperate table.
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“I was having a mildly paranoid day, mostly due to the
fact that the mad priest lady from over the river had
taken to nailing weasels to my front door again.” |
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zinpin
Junior Member
Australia
202 Posts |
Posted - 14 September 2005 : 10:48:53
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Shaggy got a question for you. With questions such as "interests" where you have multiple checkboxes with choices do you handle that as one field in the DB or is it better in the long run (ie search etc) to handle that as multiple fields.
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Shaggy
Support Moderator
Ireland
6780 Posts |
Posted - 14 September 2005 : 10:53:41
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At the moment, it's one field which stores a comma seperated list of all selected insterests (or whatever it may be). However I do plan to change the way they're stored either by having an individual boolean field for each or (more than likely) to create a table for each one of those lists with another table linking them to MEMBER_ID where applicable. Going to take a bit of testing to see which is the more efficient from the point of view of searching and probably more than a few headaches!
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“I was having a mildly paranoid day, mostly due to the
fact that the mad priest lady from over the river had
taken to nailing weasels to my front door again.” |
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zinpin
Junior Member
Australia
202 Posts |
Posted - 14 September 2005 : 10:58:33
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mate that was quick :)
I guess in terms of coding ie search entry and editing, it would be easier to have each one as an individual field but in terms of speed don't realy know if it would be faster to have em all in one table or in linked multiples.
The bagger of a thing is that there's so many of them.< |
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