Build social networks with Tuiyo

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Tuiyo is  a powerful Joomla!™ component, combining a set of useful applications, for ultimate Social interaction.

Tuiyo™ is a social networking component for Joomla!, comprising of all the main features you’d expect of a social network, including extensive user management tools, user profiles, user relationship management and idea sharing. All these and lots more, provide your site members useful tools for better interaction

1. Tuiyo™ is built on PHP5 and MySQL, and primarily as a component for Joomla!™ CMS. Tuiyo team hopes to integrate other content management systems in the nearest future.
2. Joomla!™ is a free open source framework and content publishing system designed for quickly creating highly interactive multi-language Web sites, online communities, media portals, blogs and e Commerce applications.

More about Tuiyo™

As described, Tuiyo™ is a complete social networking solution! The name Tu-i-yo is a mix of traditional Spanish, Catalan and cool-ness, i.e “Tu i jo”, in Catalan meaning “you and me”, However for many obvious reasons(including phonetics) Tu-i-yo was selected as final. As per its name, Tuiyo™ is not just another component for Joomla! but written from the ground up to ensure, the complete benefits of the Joomla! 1.5 framework, including adjustments for a complete search engine optimization, localization, and powerful user management features.

Feature Overview

1. Requires Joomla!™ 1.5.10+
2. Built with PHP5 and MySQL 4 (or any other DBMS supported by Joomla). There are no specific added requirements of your Joomla site to allow you run Tuiyo. However the most important requirements are listed below
   1. Joomla as well as Tuiyo, are built and tested primarily on Apache servers configured as described below. As such we cannot guarantee the behavior of your install on other server configurations.
   2. Preferentially, your server should be running PHP versions greater than 5.2.0, together with specific modules that are required by PHP for MySQL, XML, ZLib, JSON functionality.
3. User Resource/Files/Uploads management. With Tuiyo there is a centralized user resource management for all user uploads to the site

   

   

4. Photos gallery

   

   

5. Comprehensive user management. Tuiyo provides additional set of tools to allow for a comprehensive, yet simplified approach to user management from both the back-end and front-end of your community site.

   

   1. Back-end user management tools, include the ability to import user data, including profiles, from other Joomla sites running Tuiyo, or any other component, capable of generating a compatible comma separated values file.

      

   2. Tuiyo, unlike its predecessors, now handles a simplified user registration and authentication system, and provides for a straight forward user moderation, including blocking, suspension, and deletion of profiles.

      

   3. Tuiyo also extends its flexibility to the front-end, providing secured user profile, allowing your site users to share a little bit more about themselves. Unlike most user and community management systems, Tuiyo aims at captivating the creativity of your users, from their profile design to the ideas and social content they share on your site, hence an ultimate experience, that will surely increase your sites activity rate

   

6. User Activity stream (Timeline). Love Twitter? Plurk, or Friendfeed? Now you could take your love for these social networks a little further by hosting your own. With Tuiyo, user activity is aggregated into a central, though ‘digestible’ feed, allowing your site users to subscribe to specific elements of the feed, such as friends status update, profile activity, group activity and activity from third party profile applications.

   

7. Robust privacy settings

   

8. User Groups and Relationship management

   

   

9. Intergrated Joomla search
10. Multiple Languanges.

Building Communities with Tuiyo

Building a unique website with tuiyo combines your creativity with the inbuilt versatility of tuiyo, to give your site users an unforgettable experience. This application repository provides you with not only Tuiyo applications, but everything from Joomla! templates, to plugins, widgets, styles and languages to make your community truly unique!

• Profile Applications

The Tuiyo ™ component for Joomla!™ is highly extensible by the use of applications. Applications ranging from simple profile extenders, external profile integration, music players, and even more social ones for sending and receiving gifts, kisses and hugs. Browse through the available applications developed by the Tuiyo team, or external developers.

• Profile Styles

Profile styles are a unique way to guarantee the uniqueness of your user profiles. Though Tuiyo™ provides a highly customizable interface for users to style their profile, You could simplify this task by using pre-sets.

Widgets, Plug-ins and back-end ‘auto-run’ scripts

Plug-ins range from profile enhancers, external mail collectors, to stream commands for sending direct messages, setting reminds, creating groups and events right from the status update box. For information on building your own extensions, please visit the documentation site. This repository, list the available extension from which you could build yours

So how much does all this cost?

Tuiyo™ is released under the terms of the GNU/GPL v2.1. It is free to use , modify and distribute under the open source ideology.

For more Information visit Official Tuiyo Website http://www.tuiyo.co.uk