I have made a social networking site from scratch, but I am looking to develop a site much faster.
Needs:
1. eCommerce
2. Profiles
3. Information "nodes"
4. Control over Ajax functions for all of this, maybe a simple API
5. Google Maps
6. Third party posting formats and content processing and display.
User must be able to post nodes of content, and have it stored to their accounts. They must be able to sell things they post, if they want, or just post it for everyone to see.
Profiles will be stored in a database, cookies set to last, and display must all be controlled through one page. I did a site similar to this, like an all AJAX forum, but I would like this with a lot more jQuery movement.
The main display on the site will be nodes that follow a user defined set of protocols on the site. Third party apps can use information about their users from anyone who inputs information that follows the proper MySQL protocols.
Basically I am looking for libraries / source code to look at, etc to make development go faster. I will be using jQuery, PHP, MySQL, and CodeIgniter. I am sure someone has done something similar, and Google isnt giving me what I want. Thanks SOF.