RE Designs Ultimate Web Builder is the best. It has an awesome built-in social networking app. The software is very dynamic and flexible, and fully customizeable.

Here is the link: http://www.redesigns.org/web-builder

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i like many read around before purchasing. in short this is what i will say. if you want to create a script then honestly do it yourself or go with elgg. its support from the community is amazing. on dolphin adn phpfox which i bought both you will regret it. phpfox support is shocking they will not even tell you how to press a button on their admin cpanel they designed saying its out of support policy and their forums are even worse. you will get smart answers from people but not an answer to the question you want. so they will say things like " i dont have that problem" and that is it. no response about the problem you have. its like going to a doctor and saying your arm hurts and he says well i dont have that problem so beat it. honestly between the 2 phpfox and dolphin support is the same, extremely poor. elgg is alot more basic to begin with but the community is so helpful. i have decided for the moment to forget about it altogether and look at writing my own or customising elgg.

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social engine is a mixture of Dolphin and phpFox. it looks a lot better than phpFox and costs less. like this article says, everything is better than Dolphin. i thing phpFox is probably the most solid of the pay versions of social networking software. social engine is not far behind though.

I think phpFOX is cheaper than SocialENgine. I bought phpFOX because they are cheaper.

As a user of almost all of the solutions compared here, some of this is really out of date and should be updated a bit..

wanna test phpfox?

test site and bin laden tribute http://www.wegotthemotherf--ker.com

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