Hi, I am thinking of doing a social networking site as my project for my thesis... I would like to ask for advise if this kind of project is feasible to do for 3 months... can you suggest for other system? i'm intend to user PHP here... thank you..
yes ,you should go ahead as this is the most happening project going on these days ,you can create Social media Community site in PHP or can also work on any CMS, creat such community for your College or University
You can hire few programmers to develop one if you want a unique site,or else you can buy a similar Script and use it
Either i feel its better to go with CMS o PHP. Rather i prefer PHP, as all the templates are already on the web, just need to install it. Again starting from the coding and designing, it takes lot of time and other resources.
why re-invent the wheel? Try a free open source social networking platform like elgg, drupal or joomla and customize it to fit your needs... otherwise you will be spending months programming silly things like your friend request functions, image galleries, news feeds... This has all been done and these open source free social network platforms have been pretty well tested.
Try to use SocialEngine , Joomla, Phpfox or many other Open source script, they are user friendly and easy to manage. low cost server requirement.