I'm new to php and my boss wants me to build a simple community website sort of like face book. Is it a good idea to get something off the shelf or code from scratch? Any links, ideas, comments? all is welcome.
being new to PHP it would probably be best to buy something that has already been tested. To build something of that size, a lot of your time will be spent learning the language. If you have the time to do that then go for it. If you are looking to get something up quick then find something you can buy or that is open source and use it.
If you do use an open source package then you could spend more of your time customizing it the way you want it to work.
I said this on another post, but BuddyPress might be something you'd find useful. It is a series of plugins for WordPress MU which turns it into a sort of facebook app.
Coooool, thanks for the info Anders! I have been wanting to add something like this to one of my sites. How would something like this work verses a blog?
