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SocialEngine 304
SocialEngine
Developer(s) Webligo Developments
Initial release June 2007
Stable release 3.18 / October 28, 2009
Development status Active
Written in PHP, Smarty, and CSS
Platform Cross-platform, PHP 4.3.0, MySQL 4.1 and higher
Available in Multilingual
Type Social networking
License Proprietary software license
Website SocialEngine.net [1]
SocialEngine is a PHP-based white-label social networking service platform, that installs a custom full-featured
social network on a user's website. Main features include administration of small-to-mid scale social networks,
complete customization abilities, unencrypted code, multilingual capability, and modular plugin/widget
compatibility. There is a range of templates and add-ons available to extend the basic features already included in the
SocialEngine core.
Future development
On September 2, 2009, SocialEngine's Development Team revealed that the next major SocialEngine release, 4.0, is
to be built on an entirely different architecture than previous versions, Zend Framework, in pursuit of scalability and
new feature sets. [2] An anticipated feature set was released shortly thereafter, [3] though no date for release has been
scheduled.
Modular Extendability
Official plugins
Webligo Developments offers a variety of plugins to extend the functionality of SocialEngine into blog hosting,
photo album hosting, groups, music sharing and hosting, video sharing and hosting, chat and instant messaging
services, event planning, online polls, and forums.
Third-Party plugins
Third-party companies, such as SEplugins, [4] SocialEngineMods, [5] Hire-Experts, [6] Radcodes, [7] OpenCrypt, [8]
iExperts [9] , SocialEngineZzz, [10] and many others [11] offer modular add-ons to create new functionalities. These
functionalities may include:
• OpenID authentication
• Facebook integration
• Twitter integration
• Skype integration
• Membership/subscriptions
• File sharing
• Language packs for multilingual support