Joomla Social Factory Extension

The Joomla! solution for a modern and dynamic social networking website, following the same design patterns as our top of the line extension - Love Factory - it offers a state of the art administration interface backed up by solid code and modern templates.

Custom Fields

- Unlimited custom fields that can be created and published in any page
- Multiple field types (Checkboxes, Multipleselect, Textarea, Radio buttons, etc.)
- Fields can be arranged with a user friendly drag and drop system
- Each custom field can be set as searchable, rendering it available in advanced search
- Option to set fields as compulsory
- Visibility restrictions for each field

Layout & Themes

- Fully customizable template system
- Configure with a few simple clicks every section, page, field, instance or add-on
- Zones can be arranged with a user friendly drag and drop system
- Fully customizable CSS

Monetize

- Paid memberships which limit or grant access to users

Key Features

- Friends and Top Friends lists
- Wall page containing friends action updates
- Photo galleries with albums created by users
- Video galleries
- Ignore list for offending users
- Messaging system (users can create, send and receive personal messages)
- Interactions
- Awards system (users can get medals for specific actions)
- Users can create events which others can sign up for
- Users can create groups
- Categories for groups
- Invitation system for groups and events
- Admin definable currency
- Approval system for various actions
- Users can report comments, photos, videos, events and profiles
- "Like" buttons
- Google Maps localization
- Facebook registration and login
- Info bar (shows on all Social Factory pages and displays notifications)
- Invoices

Standards

- Multi-language support, UTF-8 support, comes default with English INI language files
- SEO/SEF friendly
- Default integration with Joomla! user profile, allowing a single login for Joomla! and component
- Easy transition to RTL by editing the product templates
- Simple installation, configuration and updating process

User Profile

- Configurable account details (basic details, location, education, contact, etc.)
- Displays events and groups of every user
- Set profile privacy (Public, Just Friends, Offline)
- Show/Hide specific fields
- Personalized fields

Main Settings

- Date & Time format
- Choose between Joomla!'s or Social Factory's registration form
- Set the redirect page upon logging in
- Set used currency
- Enable/disable medal awards system
- Enable and set up Info bar
- Enable the approvals for various actions (comments, events, photos, etc.)
- Manage permission settings
- Enable and set up Google Maps
- Enable and set up Facebook registration
- Enable/disable notifications
- Enable/disable Cron Jobs
- Manage backend submenu using a friendly drag and drop system
- Enable/disable Google CDN jQuery libraries

Search

- Members search by gender, age and online status
- Radius search for events and members with the use of Google Maps
- Searchable custom fields

Payments Gateways

- Several Payment Gateways supported for payments towards the site: Paypal, Moneybookers/Skrill, iDealing, Google Checkout, Sagepay, Authorize.Net, Bank-transfers

Modules & Plugins

- Modules that display members based on various criteria: latest, random, online, latest viewed profiles, latest profile visitors (multiple instances module)
- Facebook connect module
- User and system plugins

3rd Party Integrations

- Google Maps
- Facebook registration and login
- Blog Factory
- Embedded video integration

Notifications

- 7 types of email notifications for specific actions made by users
- Customizable email templates

Backend Management

- Actions: manage membership plans, deal with reports, send notifications, etc.
- Backup and restore Social Factory database and settings (can also include Joomla! users)
- Import data from Jomsocial (fields, user profiles, blocklist, messages, photos, photo comments, Youtube videos only, video comments, groups, friends)
- User management
- Manage approvals
- Payments management
- Dashboard containing several statistics and information

Requirements

- Joomla! 4.x, 3.x
- PHP (min. 5.3.0)
- MySQL (min. 5.1 + )
- CRON (a general CRON Tutorial is available in our documentation section)
- cURL, GD2 libraries enabled

FURTHER DETAILED INFORMATION IS AVAILABLE ON THE PRODUCT HOMEPAGE!