Tool for building a social network: Elgg or Pinax?

Question

I'm going to build a social network (yes... another one). I'm thinking about using Pinax (which is Django which is Python) or Elgg (PHP).

That's the two options I know. Could you help me to choose beetwen them?

Another options?

Thanks

Answer 1

There are many scripts that can be used for this purposes. First of all, if you are not strong with python I would advise you to chose script written on php as it less demanding to hosting environment and there are many programmers who can handle this task. I have played for a while with ELGG and found it very basic and quite time consuming to produce something useful. It might worth a look on commercial products that have more features out of the box. Here is few of them:

PG Social Networking (800$)

Social Engine - facebook clone (250$)

DZOIC Handshake (250$)

PHP Fox (100$-300$)

Good Luck.