Goal
The goal of the project was to develop a corporate social network Fit Species for bodybuilders.
Registered users should be able to:
- Add other users to the friends list;
- Write messages to each other;
- Create groups/events;
- Subscribe to groups’/events’ news;
- Keep a list of competitions in which users have competed;
- Show items that the user sells in the Fit Bazar online store;
- The coach should be able to either find customers or to create account for new customers using a simplified form;
- Facebook registration/authorization;
- Edit profile;
- Search for users on the site;
- When users create posts, duplicate them on their own Facebook page and on Fit Species Facebook page.
Solution
Considering the complex structure of the site, we selected the most appropriate technology - Drupal Commons, which is built into CMS Drupal 7.
Integration with Fit Bazar online store was implemented on basis of CS-CART API.
Duplication of posts on Facebook pages was implemented through Facebook API.
In the development were used the following modules and libraries: Panels, Views, WYSIWIG, Twitter Bootstrap, Drupal for Facebook and other auxiliary modules and libraries. To solve non-standard problems we created our own modules.
Project team
- Curator proceeded communication with the customer, discussion and evaluation of the technical specifications, control of the development.
- 1 PHP/JavaScript programmer – development.
- Tester – test of the project.
Duration
After all details were discussed, we have made an evaluation of the project and designated the implementation deadlines. The project was successfully completed during 4 months.
