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I'm not a total newbie to web technology, but I do not have tons of experience programming things from scratch, especially not recently! I have put together things like phpbb wordpress moveabletype, working with a mysqldb on my host, I know some php and sql, and can usually figure out how to implement opensource packages and what not.
Anyway...
I would like to build a site, which is going to allow my business to introuce language teachers, to hopeful language students. The site is a middle man. I know I'm blabing my business plan here, but I don't mind :-)
So hopeful teachers would come to the site. Fill out a form. Upload a pic.
Later hopeful students would come to the site. Fill out a form. Browse the teachers. Pick one they want to contact.
They would tell us, and we would arrange the contact exchange, and they would contact each other via an internal messaging system in the site.
Basically, that's it.
I was wondering if there is some type of system that already exists and is available that is close, so I could just pick it up, and modify to get it where I want to be.
Don't want to build from scratch if at all possible!
Any advice appreciated!
- Harvey
Forum software can be fairly flexible, allowing different kinds of members, expandable profiles, payment options, etc. You might have to customize profiles and add some member search functionality.
In some ways, your problem resembles that faced by dating/matchmaking sites - starting with that kind of script and hacking it might work, too.
Wow sourceforge is cooler than I ever imagined...
[sourceforge.net...]
[moodle.org...]
