Which one is better for making a social networking website, Drupal or Codeigniter?

Question

Hello

i am going to develop a social networking(like facebook) website for a company for internal

use only but i am confused between Drupal and codeigniter that which one i should use.

so please suggest me that which one is better to make a robust and high quality social

networking website in short time period.

My website included almost all general features sending friend request,image uploading,video

uploading,chat(text and video) etc.

if you know a better solution than drupal & codeigniter then please suggest me You are most

welcome but it should be open source and free of cost.

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Try out BuddyPress.

Answer 2

Drupal is a Content Management System, while CodeIgniter is (only) a Model-View-Controller framework. A CMS has a lot of built in features that are ready to use without any coding. Frameworks are systems that make programming easier and shorter, but you have to code the functionality from scratch.

You can do the whole site yourself, with the help of a framework, or use a existing solution like @Otar said.

Answer 3

This is highly dependent on your specific needs. If 80% of your requirements can be done using Drupal modules then go for Drupal. However, if you have a lot of very-specific stuff that you will need to code by yourself, I'd suggest an MVC framework instead (not CodeIgniter though).