Welcome to the Community Portal Tutorial

The purpose of this tutorial is to provide new PRADO users a step-by-step guidance on how to develop a blog system using PRADO. A more definitive guidance about PRADO is the Quickstart Tutorial, which readers can refer to when reading this tutorial.

This tutorial will show you how to create a community / content management portal solution in Prado 3.1. For those not familiar with the term community portal solution it basically means a website that allows users to have personalized profiles, send messages, share files, link to friends etc.

Similar projects / references

To get a inspiration / a better understanding of what we are building the following links can be relevant:

• http://www.linkedin.com/ (manage professional relationships)
• http://blink.dagbladet.no (Norwegian "social" community)
• http://www.facebook.com
• http://www.barnraiser.org/demos/aroundme_0_7_2/aroundme/ (quote: "a flexible social tool kit". open source / free(?))

Readers of this tutorial are required to have prior knowledge about PRADO and knowledge of object-oriented programming (OOP) and database programming.

This tutorial is organized in a step-by-step fashion..

In order to follow the tutorial to create and run the day-by-day examples, readers should have access to a Web server installed with PHP 5.1.0+ and PRADO 3.1+. Instructions for installing PRADO can be found at pradosoft.com.