How to build your own Social Network withby Taras Krutsfor Drupal Cafe Lviv

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Activity Stream

Groups

Profiles

Events

Mentions

Notifications

Search

Posts

Follow

Topics

Required ingredients Modules- crop- image_widget_crop- libraries- features- field_group- r4032login- search_api- bootstrap

use patches

Profiles

Profiles Difficulty: EasyIngredients- address- profile- taxonomy- telephone- user- social_user- social_profile

Separate account and profile

Create new profile on user creation

Keep privacy in mind

Groups

Groups Difficulty: MediumIngredients- group- gnode- grolesync- social_group- group_core_comments

Set permission in groups

Alter redirects on forms submit

Invalidate cache tags

Events

Events Difficulty: EasyIngredients- address- comment- datetime or datetime_range- node- profile- social_event- social_event_type- social_event_managers

Define Event enrollment entity

Add date formats

Add views sort for passed events

Activity Stream

Activity Stream Difficulty: HardIngredients- dynamic_entity_reference- message- token- activity_basic- activity_creator- activity_logger- activity_send- activity_viewer- social_activity

Create architecture

Add queue workers (cron jobs)

Configure message templates

Store in Third Party Settings

Setup activity destinations

Mentions

Mentions Difficulty: MediumIngredients- mentions- filter- social_mentions

Add JS libraries

Add suggestions callback

Add Profile mentions type

Add reply to reply

Add notifications about mentions

Learn more

- drupal.org/project/social- github.com/goalgorilla/open_social- getopensocial.com/blogs- lets.getopensocial.com

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