Originally Posted by enright270

Hello,
I'll be developing a social networking site, much like yelp.com, where users have their own profiles, are able to rate businesses, etc. I've been digging around to see if any of the popular free platforms might serve as a good base to do this, but it's tough to tell at this point. Elgg seems like a possible solution.

I would consider paying for a software package as well, as long as I'd be in control of the code. Preferably, would like something LAMP based.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated! Please offer any opinions.

Cheers,
-Sean

I believe that Yelp is on an Ellg platform but don't quote me on that!

We don't talk about Ellg here much but we should because i have some experience with the script and as far as template flexibility and other things, the script is excellent and very stable as of recent.

What special functions or features are you looking for exactly, maybe I could help.

yelp looks like a lot of differet with elgg
I am running elgg for one of my site but i have more issues with them they even didnt made a template untill now
they said they would develop in june

Originally Posted by sb225

yelp looks like a lot of differet with elgg
I am running elgg for one of my site but i have more issues with them they even didnt made a template untill now
they said they would develop in june

Yeah, like I said, it has just been recent that the script is getting decent but I think that it could be one of the best out soon.