Xenforo Modded Into A Fully Functional Dating Site

[Deepmartini]

Is this possible?

Would need: member albums, custom fields, zipcode search, profile stats search, private photos which can be unlocked, etc.

Anyone working on something like this?

 

[Deepmartini]

UPDATE: Looks like the new custom user fields should accomplish much of this.

http://xenforo.com/community/threads/custom-user-fields-in-xenforo-1-1.20673/

Now developers can modify the code so that users can search and match "custom fields". Hence a dating site. Would this be difficult to do? What do you think?

 

[Xarcell]

UPDATE: Looks like the new custom user fields should accomplish much of this.

http://xenforo.com/community/threads/custom-user-fields-in-xenforo-1-1.20673/

Now developers can modify the code so that users can search and match "custom fields". Hence a dating site. Would this be difficult to do? What do you think?

Yes, but that's not the problem. The problem is age restrictions. In a PC with Kier, he said it could be done with cron jobs, but I just don't like the sound of that.

 

[EasyTarget]

You could handle the age restrictions by user groups? If someone registers and they put a birthdate < 18 years old, then you put them into "Minors" user group. The Minors user group wouldn't be able to view certain forums?

It would have to be a small tweak on the registration process.

 

[Xarcell]

You could handle the age restrictions by user groups? If someone registers and they put a birthdate < 18 years old, then you put them into "Minors" user group. The Minors user group wouldn't be able to view certain forums?

It would have to be a small tweak on the registration process.

That's what I thought, but the way xF is setup, it cannot be done properly. It would require cron jobs. Tried this already. It works on registration, but doesn't update after that.

 

[Marcus]

I've spent 18 months in school studying male-female relationships

This sounds like fun.

 

[EasyTarget]

That's what I thought, but the way xF is setup, it cannot be done properly. It would require cron jobs. Tried this already. It works on registration, but doesn't update after that.

Ah, I see what your saying.

If the user signed up and was originally a minor and then changed their birth date...

Well a work around could be a combination of the custom profile fields, where the person must set their birthday, and the stored value is their age. Then using the trophy setting you can award a trophy once someone turns 18? Clunky, but it could be done.

 

[Deepmartini]

Anyone know any developers working on something like this? A Dating mod would be cool.

 

[Dav]

I would pay for a good dating mod if it had the right features and compatibility

 

[Deepmartini]

I would pay for a good dating mod if it had the right features and compatibility

Shouldn't be too hard to make given the new customizable profile fields.

 

[bart]

This is something for me too... Hope some developer will start on this.

 

[Alpha1]

It will need an overhaul of the memberlist and a little expansion of profiles.
XenMediaGallery will add nice profile albums for photos and video in the near future.
Profile fields would need to be set to searchable so that it would be easy to search for things like gender, age, height, etc.

Faceted search would be very useful for this. Elastic Search support this. See: http://xenforo.com/community/threads/access-to-faceted-search-please.46134/

The paygates addon would be useful to let people pay for their subscriptions.

 

[erich37]

there needs to be some more payment-options build into XF-core, something like this:

http://xenforo.com/community/threads/bd-paygates.47280/page-2#post-522513


I do not want to rely on Addons for critical features like "payments"......

 

[Alpha1]

there needs to be some more payment-options build into XF-core, something like this:

http://xenforo.com/community/threads/bd-paygates.47280/page-2#post-522513


I do not want to rely on Addons for critical features like "payments"......

You have a good point there. I still run AWC subscriptions on my vb big board while AWC has gone dead since years ago. I'm glad that I never updated the software after that as the official payment software package got infected with a planted trojan. See the announcement here: http://www.forumcoding.com/
Over time a lot of addons go dead or worse.

 

[DRE]

People have hooked up already on my site and I didn't need any dating modifications.

Just get this: http://xenforo.com/community/resources/advanced-member-profile-search.1748/