ShaunSocial is a PHP Social Network Script. It is the first truly Laravel social network framework for building fast, scalable and secure content-driven social network websites and mobile apps like Tiktok, instagram....

Our script supports native apps and uses the latest technology for building web and apps. It’s designed to be scalable when your community grows.

• For the front end, we design the interface in a simple, content-oriented style, friendly to all devices using Vue.js technology.
• For the backend, we use laravel framework, a very popular platform and is being used by many developers. This helps you easily find developers when you want to change or develop new features to change ShaunSocial to suit your business model.
• For mobile apps, we use flutter, the world’s most popular mobile app development framework. Mobile apps and front end communicate with backend through API.
• Regarding database, we use MariaDB and MySQL

• Landing page: Customizable landing page where you can change picture, text and logo
• Feeds: includes status updates, photos, videos, links, ... .from people and tags that you follow on your shaunsocial website/apps.
• Profile Page: Profile page is where you can view user posts, follow, send a message.. and see detailed information of the user.
• List Page: List page to manage Followings, Followers, Blocked members and Tags
• Discover: Discover is the place to display the trending/popular updates you may be interested in to follow.
• Bookmarks: Save content that you interested in bookmark tab
• GPDR: Download user personal data. Download link will be sent directly to user email
• Business directory/page plugin
• Ads plugin
• EWallet
• Groups plugin: Introducing Groups—your new space to connect, collaborate, and share with like-minded individuals. Whether it’s a community for your passions or a private group of friends, Groups allow you to create, manage, and engage in focused conversations. Build your community today!
• Polls: Curious what your followers think? Polls are here to make it easier than ever to engage your audience. Ask quick, interactive questions and get instant feedback from your community. It’s a great way to spark conversations and get your followers involved!
• Vibbs (Reels, short videos): Lights, camera, action! With the new Vibbs feature, you can create and share short-form videos directly within ShaunSocial. Whether you’re showcasing creativity, humor, or just having fun, Reels offers an exciting way to connect with your followers through dynamic content.
• Sensitive Content Warning: We’re enhancing safety with the Sensitive Content Warning feature. Now you can mark posts containing sensitive material to give your followers a heads-up before they view it. It’s a step forward in maintaining a respectful environment for all users.
• Feed Views Count: Want to know how your posts are performing? Now you can track Feed Views Count and see exactly how many people have viewed your posts. This gives you valuable insights into your reach and allows you to optimize your content strategy.
• Post Privacy Settings: Take full control of your content with the new Post Privacy Settings. Choose whether to keep your posts’ interaction private, share them with followers, or open them up to the public. It’s all about giving you the flexibility to manage your privacy the way you want.
• Story Plugin: Create a background and image story to share to your followers.
• Realtime Chat: Send/Receive chat requests and start chatting right away.
• Watch: The watch section displays short-form videos that members shared on the ShaunSocial platform at homepage. It's the basic version of Instagram Reels and TikTok. The most popular (based on total likes and comments) videos will on top
• Invite: Invite friends to join the social network via email
• Profile Settings: Change Profile, Account, Notifications and Mail Setting
• Darkmode: Change site theme manually or based on setting day/night of the system.
• Hashtags: On ShaunSocial, people use the hashtag symbol (#) before a relevant keyword or phrase in their post to categorize those posts and help them show more easily in search. Clicking or tapping on a hashtagged word in any message shows you other posts that include that hashtag. Hashtags can be included anywhere in a post.
• Static pages:  provides you a tool to create a custom page and add it into the main menu, footer menu or mobile apps. The pages module is also a tool where you can manage the content of “policy”, “term of services' ' and “About us” page at the footer menu.
• Follow: allow you to follow people and Hashtags
• Layout editor: Change layout of any page on the site via our layout manager
• Social logins:  allows SSO login in ShuanSocial site via any OAuth/OpenID Connect Identity provider such as facebook, google, apple…, and others. This plugin allows secure login to your ShuanSocial site without having to remember a username and password
• Comment: allows your members to make comments on the posts on your site
• Reply: allows you to reply to a comment
• Report: allows your members to report posts, profile e.t.c
• Videos: allow your member can share a short videos, the short video will appear in the Watch section
• RTL language support
• Rest api: full support rest api for all features
• Multi-Lingual: you can easily create a new language pack and translate it by yourself in the admin panel. 
• Notification: send to your members notification (push and email) about the related items. 
• Storage System: Add external storage like s3 to the site to store media files
• Search Plugin: allow your member to search posts…by keyword. 
• Likes: provide your members option to like items shared in your site
• Share: provide your members option to repost items in your site
• Mention: provide your members ability to mention each other in their post
• And Many More features that you can check at our above demo link.

• Server OS: Linux is recommended
• Web server: Apache or (NginX + PHP-FPM)
• PHP 8.1+
• Database: MySQL 5.7+ or MariaDB 10.10+
• Video Upload: FFMPEG (Optional)
• PHP extensions: Ctype, cURL, DOM, Fileinfo, Filter, Hash, Mbstring, OpenSSL, PCRE, Tokenizer, XML, GD, Zip, fileinfo, exif

Installation

Unzip the .zip file.
Follow the instructions here to install

Documentation

Access the documentation for detailed instructions and usage guidelines here. 

Change logs

Version 1.3. Change login here

Version 1.2. See changed log here

Version 1.1.1: included some small changes to make it compatible with mobile app 1.1

Version 1.1. See change log here.