May 6, 201016 yr I'm after setting up something similar to Ning for a couple of projects I'm working on. One of them needs to be able to offer a paid membership system somehow. I'd rather use WP simply because I've used it extensively in the past and know how to develop plugins etc. for it, Elgg I've never used before - had a quick play with it locally this morning but doesn't seem very user friendly (from an admin point of view)?
May 6, 201016 yr WP all the way, you can easily create a membership only site and just integrate paypal into it.... Maybe look into Joomla or drupal, more of a learning curve but they are built for the bigger sites
May 7, 201016 yr Author With one of the sites, what I need to do is set something up so that paid members have their own subdomain (i.e. dave.mysite.com) and they can upload pics/videos to it (this is a car club site BTW) - tried to set up WPMU on my Vista machine but "computer said no"... Might set up a webserver on my Mac or Linux box as I need wildcard DNS set up.
May 7, 201016 yr With one of the sites, what I need to do is set something up so that paid members have their own subdomain (i.e. dave.mysite.com) and they can upload pics/videos to it (this is a car club site BTW) - tried to set up WPMU on my Vista machine but "computer said no"... Might set up a webserver on my Mac or Linux box as I need wildcard DNS set up. I'd personally recommend you go with something built more towards a larger, more complex site such as Drupal/Joomla. The whole sub-domain thing can be easily achieved with mod_rewrite on Apache. Note: when developing a user-defined subdomain make sure you force them to have a username bigger than 4 characters.. otherwise you'll have the crackers attempting to register "www." and "mail."
May 7, 201016 yr As for Elgg, I asked a guy at work about it and he said it's an absolute nightmare to work with, and even more of one to get to grips with. It has it's own API kind of programming so that you can customise it, similar to Wordpress plugins but with a bigger learning curve. It's also supposed to be very slow unless you have a powerful server running it. The site he build using it is now powered by ModX, does pretty much the same thing it was doing with Elgg, runs a lot faster, and is a lot more customisable because he wrote snippets for the various functions. From what he said, I'd stay well clear of Elgg though what you use instead is entirely up to you...
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