Matchmaking / dating service

thimble

Hi,

I want to create an online matchmaking site, but before i make something from scratch, i want to know if there isn't already an ready to go script somewhere on the net...

Anybody an idea?

Thanks!
Johan

Anon

Johan,

I have an even better Idea for ya.

I'm an affiliate of a personals site.
This means that I create a pretty front page, and all the links point to the real site.
Any sales made from profiles created through my site, I earn 30% of, and I had to do very little work at all

check out www.platinumaffiliates.com for the info.

The personals site itself is at www.platinumromance.com

Hope this helps

John

thimble

Hi John,

It is a nice initiative, but i'm not interested in earning money for it.

For me it's about learning PHP and with that helping local people get together.

Thanks anyway!

Johan

Anon

Sounds like an interesting project. I had a quick look on hotscripts.com and couldnt find anything similar to your requirements, so there's a gap in the PHP arsenal there!
The algorithm for matchmaking should be pretty straightforward though. What comes to mind is a questionairre, on which you would ask various personality trait questions and ask people to mark each question/statement from one to ten
e.g.
"I love fishing"

"I am a bubbly personality"

"I'm quite introverted"

"I find it easy to strike up a conversation with a total stranger"

etc etc

Based on these markings you could then match a persons results with other people in your database. I would suggest maybe looking up personality attribute websites or psychological profile websites to get some ideas on how to implement this.

Vingerhoed Johan wrote:

Hi,

I want to create an online matchmaking site, but before i make something from scratch, i want to know if there isn't already an ready to go script somewhere on the net...

Anybody an idea?

Thanks!
Johan

thimble

It is an interesting project :-)
I searched the web and newsgroups for weeks cause i'm not a winer who asks questions without doing some serious research myself...

The only PHP projects i could find where non-free, so you had to pay if you wanted to obtain them.

The free matchmakin projects i've found are written in CGI, but cgi is really out of date and certainly for a matchmakin system, cause it starts a cgi-child on the server for every user that logs in...

Maybe if i would find a couple persons interested in programming one from scratch in PHP and distribute it for free, i would consider beginning, but on my own... hmm

If i start to make one myself, it has to be something with all the features possible and highly customizable so it is really usefull.
Thing like a pager and a kinfd of own private messaging system in it, and the ability to send a pop-up to someone who is on the site and logged in.. etc..etc

A site like "fill in your age and interests" and a "search" button is not what i had in mind...

People interested??

Greetingz,
Johan