synopsis social networking website

A Synopsis on Frenzoholic (Social Networking Website)

Submitted in partial fulfilment for award of Bachelor Degree of Technology Degree in Information Technology

By: Ambika Asthana (0705613011)

Under Guidance of Mr.Ajir Swaroop

Northern India Engineering College (2010-2011)

Abstract The social networking website is an online community designed to make your social life more active and stimulating. The social network can help you maintain existing relationships with people and share pictures and messages, and establish new ones by reaching out to people you've never met before. Frenzoholic is a Social Networking Website which a web based service providing its users to construct a public or semi public profile within a bounded system . This website provides the features of keeping intact with one and all at one place.Frenzohlic lets keep in touch with your peers and pals , without boring you at the same time . Frenzoholic has various other attractive features of technofreaks ….Its coming up with new world which will be enjoying for every section of society .

Objective Social network sites (SNSs) are increasingly attracting the attention of academic and industry researchers intrigued by their affordances and reach. Social networking sites are not only for you to communicate or interact with other people globally but, this is also one effective way for business promotion. A lot of business minded people these days are now doing business online and use these social networking sites to respond to customer queries. It isn't just a social media site used to socialize with your friends but also, represents a huge pool of information from day to day living. The main objective of this website to help users maintain their social aura by keeping intact with their close ones and important people. This most social networking websites do not carry membership charges and offer free services to all users and help you Stay in touch with contacts, reach out to new people, and show the community you care about company-to-client communication!

Acknowledgement

First of all, I would like to say thanks to my Java Coordinator Mr.Deepak Shukla for giving me the strength , his valuable time and knowledge to do this project work . I had some difficulties in doing this task, but he taught me patiently until I knew what to do. He tried and tried to teach me until I understand what I was supposed to do with the project work. I would also like pay gratitude to my family for providing everything, such as money, to buy anything that are related to this project work and their advise, which is the most needed for this project. Internet, books, computers and all that as my source to complete this project. They also supported me and encouraged me to complete this task so that I will not procrastinate in doing it. Then I would like to thank my College for providing me with an Industrial Training letter and also to E Soft Connect Pvt Ltd for providing me with this course and Project .Last but not least, my friends and batch mates who helped me in giving their valuable opinion and sharing their ideas.

Table of Contents 1. CHAPTER 1 1.1

Introduction ............................................................................................................................. 3

2. CHAPTER 2 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.8 2.9 2.10

Product Perspective .................................................................................................................. 4 Product Functions .................................................................................................................... 4 Operating Environment ............................................................................................................ 5 Design and Implementation Constraints ................................................................................... 5 Requirements specification (Assumptions and Dependencies)................................................... 5 Feasibility study (External Interface Requirements).................................................................. 6 System Features ..................................................................................................................... 12 System Feature....................................................................................................................... 12 Other Nonfunctional Requirements ........................................................................................ 13 Security Requirements ........................................................................................................... 13

3. CHAPTER 3 3.1 3.2

Design Phase.......................................................................................................................... 14 Programmer’s Point of View .................................................................................................. 23

4. Conclusion 5. Bibliography

CHAPTER 1 1.1 Introduction 1.1.1 Purpose Product intends to provide a well established web-based social networking system. This documents a networking system scope, functionalities, requirements and feasibility.

1.1.2 Document Conventions In this whole document key points are written in bold faces with the same font as the text.

1.1.3 Intended Audience and Reading Suggestions Software developer Administrator Security Analysts Users of the system Maintenance Team

1.1.4 Product Scope The social networking website,Frenzoholic is an online community designed to make your social life more active and stimulating. The social network can help you maintain existing relationships with people and share pictures and messages, and establish new ones by reaching out to people you've never met before. This website also provides the latest news of technologies eg:Digital Inspiration. The main idea behind behind blogging is to share your thoughts with all your friends which can be read by all the users using the website. This blog can be handled by the user as he wants for example adding videos and photos also. This website enhances proper and best time usage for all sections of every kind of people and caters to their taste by providing them the news of their interest.

2.Chapter 2 2.1 Product Perspective This social networking website challenges to give a better socializing and auctioning System at the same place. This website helps strengthening better relationships with our friends and social community.

2.2 Product Functions Authorization: There is unique authority of the system that is the administrator of the system. User authentication: A newly created user is authenticated against the given email address and his username and password. User form: The system offers a simple, attractive, user friendly user interface easily understandable by the users of the system. Entries of the user form are under the authority of the administrator only. Some of the entries in the form are mandatory in order to authenticate the user, describe the user thoroughly etc. Administrator Functions: 1. Authentication of the users after registration. 2. Mails to the users regarding the approval as a registered user, disapproval mentioning the appropriate reasons. 3. Updating the account details on the request of the users. 4. Answering the user queries. 5. Notification to the end users regarding proposals. 6. Payment of the system by the user. 7. Mentioning the security measures for the system’s safety. 8. Deleting an account/user from the system’s databases on request of the user 9. Manging advertisements on the website .

Website Information: 1. Displaying History: Mentions the history about the system such as founder of the system, number of users using the system. 2. Comments: Mentions the comments on the system by the existing users and their experiences of using the system. It does not include the FAQs. 3. Contact details: Contact details about personnel related to the system for personal or vocal assistance. 4. Advertisements: Website will contain advertisements related to all various Products.

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2.3 Operating Environment Internet Browser Support: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

Internet Explorer 6/7/8 Mozilla Firefox Google Chrome Opera Safari

Operating System Support: 1. WINDOWS 98/XP/VISTA/7 2. Mac OS Internet Connectivity Required

2.4 Design and Implementation Constraints

Security: The files in which the information regarding account Should be secured against malicious deformations.

Fault Tolerance: Data should not become corrupted in case of system crash or power failure.

2.5 Assumptions and Dependencies Central server of the system must be able to handle all the incoming requests simultaneously. Back up of the databases in case of hardware failure, disaster, natural calamities. No data loss in case of handling of the system by the administrators or the system related personnel.

Software Requirements Specification for Social Networking Website

2.6 External Interface Requirements 2.6.1.1 Flow Diagram Login Page

If the user is a registered member.

If the user is not a registered member.

Back to Login Page

Optional

Registration page Edit Profile Home Page

Logout

Personal

Professional User’s Choice Social Search Friends Update Page Sell Products

Blog

Buying And Selling Of products

Back to User Page

Fig 1: Flow Diagram

Photo/Video sharing

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2.6.2 User Interfaces Login Page:

Fig 2: Login Page Validation: Minimum length of user name must be at least four characters. Minimum length of password is 5 characters. Error reporting: If validation constraints are not satisfied then an error is displayed below the text box

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Registration Page:

Fig 3 : Registration Page Validation: All fields are required Match email ID with confirm email ID Match Password with confirm password Error reporting: If validation constraints are not satisfied then an error is displayed alongside the text box

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Home Page :

Fig 4 home Page Message Page:

Fig 5 M

Message Page

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Photo Page :

Fig 7 Photo Page Software Requirements Specification for Social Networking Website

Blog Page:

Fig 8 Blog Page Page 10 Selling Page

2.6.3 Communications Interfaces To use the social networking system efficiently user need to have an internet connection with a personal computer running with any well established Operating System like Windows or Linux. User needs to have installed Internet browser and email client on his machine for the same.

2.7 System Features The social networking website is for people to get connected, there is also a feature for them to buy and sell products in a trusted friend circle. In addition to this feature the users have the facility to add videos and photos. This website gives a lot of features all at one place.

2.8 System Feature Creating a new account User is allowed to create his own profile. According to the specifications required by the administrator, the user forms his own profile and submits it to the system. Updating the account The user is allowed to update his/her account. The administrator updates the profile accordingly. The user is not allowed to keep any mandatory fields blank while updating. For e.g. Name, Last name, occupation etc.

Deleting the account The user, if he/she/, wish to delete the account, the administrator is informed and with the permission of the desired user account is deleted from the system’s database. Uploading Photographs The user has a facility to upload and share his photographs. Adding YouTube videos The user can add videos from you tube and share with people. Blogging The user has the right to write his own blog and publish it. This blog can be read by people in his social circle.

2.9 Other Nonfunctional Requirements 2.9.1 Performance Requirements Scalability: System should be able to handle a number of users. For e.g. Handling around thousand users at the same time. Usability: Simple user interfaces that a layman can understand. Speed: Speed of the system should be responsive i.e. response to a particular action should be available in short period of time. For e.g. on registering as a new user the notification about the approval is sent immediately to the respective user through email. Updating the account takes few seconds for the changes if the entry is not starred.

2.10 Security Requirements The new profile formed is validated against the given email address. The system or the system databases should not be manipulated by the user. In case of any such manipulations by the registered user, strict actions to be taken for the safety of the system.

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3.Chapter 3 3.1 Design Phase 1. Use case diagrams.

Login Page

Fig 1 LOGIN PAGE

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Home Page

Fig 2 HOME PAGES

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Video Page

Fig 4 VIDEO PAGE

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Blog Page

Fig 5 BLOG PAGE

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3.1.1 Package Diagram and Deployment Diagram Package Diagram

Fig 6 Package Diagram

Deployment Diagram

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Fig 7 Deployment Diagram

3.1.2 Database Schema design REGISTER TABLE USER_ID

PASSWORD FIRST_NAM LAST_NAM E E

GENDER

DOB

USER_ ID IS THE PRIMARY KEY

FRIEND LIST TABLE USER_ID

FRIEND_USER_ID

USER_ID IS THE FOREIGN KEY REFERRED FROM REGISTER TABLE

ADDRESS

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VIDEO TABLE USER_ID

URL

USER_ID IS THE FOREIGN KEY REFERRED FROM REGISTER TABLE

PHOTO TABLE USER_ID

LINK

USER_ID IS THE FOREIGN KEY REFERRED FROM REGISTER TABLE

BLOGGING TABLE USER_ID

TITLE

CONTENTS

DATE_OF_CREATION

USER_ID IS THE FOREIGN KEY REFERRED FROM REGISTER TABLE

BUY TABLE USER_ID

LIST_OF_PRODUCTS

START_PRICE

BIDDER_ID

BID_PRICE

USER_ID IS THE FOREIGN KEY REFERRED FROM REGISTER TABLE

SELL_TABLE USER_ID

IMAGE_LINK

DESCRIPTION

START_PRICE

LIST_OF_PRODUCTS

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USER_ID IS THE FOREIGN KEY REFERRED FROM REGISTER TABLE

MESSAGE TABLE USER_ID

RECEIVER_ID

MESSAGES

USER_ID IS THE FOREIGN KEY REFERRED FROM REGISTER TABLE

3.1.3 Database work All the database queries that will be required for the project have been completed. The structure of the database is subject to change according to the requirements of the project and the need to incorporate new features or update existing ones. Some changes have been made to the existing database queries: 1. Change made to the register table Register_table query CREATE TABLE register_table( user_id VARCHAR( 20 ) NOT NULL , password VARCHAR( 30 ) NOT NULL , first_name VARCHAR( 50 ) NOT NULL , last_name VARCHAR( 50 ) NOT NULL , gender VARCHAR( 10 ) NOT NULL , date_of_birth VARCHAR(20) NOT NULL , street VARCHAR(20) NOT NULL , city VARCHAR(20) NOT NULL , state VARCHAR(20) NOT NULL , zip integer(20) NOT NULL , country VARCHAR(20) NOT NULL , email VARCHAR(20) NOT NULL , PRIMARY KEY ( user_id ) ) ENGINE = MYISAM Friend_list table CREATE TABLE friend_list (

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user_id VARCHAR( 20 ) NOT NULL , friend_user_id VARCHAR( 20 ) NOT NULL , CONSTRAINT user_id_fk FOREIGN KEY(user_id) REFERENCES register_table(user_id) ON DELETE CASCADE, CONSTRAINT friend_user_id_fk FOREIGN KEY(friend_user_id) REFERENCES register_table(user_id) ON DELETE CASCADE ) ENGINE = MYISAM ;

The register table query that was mentioned earlier was modified to add the other details like gender,street etc. These values will be used to display the data on the user profile page. 2 .Change made to the videos table query CREATE TABLE video ( user_id VARCHAR( 20 ) NOT NULL , video_id VARCHAR( 20 ) NOT NULL , UNIQUE(video_id), CONSTRAINT user_id_fk FOREIGN KEY(user_id) REFERENCES register_table(user_id) ON DELETE CASCADE ) ENGINE = MYISAM ;

The Video table will now have a video_id unique attribute to disallow redundant data into the database. All other details have been implemented dynamically using the youtube API. 3. Changes made to the message table query CREATE TABLE message ( Seq INT NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT, user_id VARCHAR( 20 ) NOT NULL , receiver_user_id VARCHAR( 20 ) NOT NULL , message VARCHAR( 350 ) NOT NULL, PRIMARY KEY(seq), CONSTRAINT user_id_fk FOREIGN KEY(user_id) REFERENCES register_table(user_id) ON DELETE CASCADE, CONSTRAINT receiver_user_id_fk FOREIGN KEY(receiver_user_id) REFERENCES register_table(user_id) ON DELETE CASCADE ) ENGINE = MYISAM

Software Requirements Specification for Social Networking Website

The message table now limits the maximum number of characters for a single message to be 350 characters. This change was made to save space utilized and the memory footprint of our project. Another change made was adding the sequence attribute which is the primary key of the message table. This was added because data base inconsistency was occurring during the actual implementation phase. 4. Changes made to the blog table query: CREATE TABLE blog ( user_id VARCHAR( 20 ) NOT NULL , title VARCHAR( 100 ) NOT NULL, contents LONGBLOB NOT NULL, date_of_creation DATE NOT NULL, CONSTRAINT user_id_blog_fk FOREIGN KEY(user_id) REFERENCES register_table(user_id) ON DELETE CASCADE ) ENGINE = MYISAM ;

The actual contents of the blog are now stored with the data type CLOB instead of LONGBLOB because CLOB satisfies all our requirements and saves some memory too.

3.2 Programmer’s Point of View The earlier section covers the schema of the project with the design of the tables being created. For all pages we are going to use PHP and HTML as frontend and MySQL as backend. Login Page: We are going to verify the login credentials from register table. If user enters valid information he/she will get logged in and home page will get displayed. If person is new user he will select Register page option. Register Page: Register page will take basic user details and after checking all the values (eg. Empty values, Invalid Password etc.) It will insert all the values in the register table. After successful inserts, user will get directed to login page. Home Page: On the home page, we will have friends list displayed in html table on the right side of page and all these values will be retrieved from friends table. This page will also have links to pages like videos, blogs etc. The middle part of home page will have entries displayed from register table. Edit profile page:

Software Requirements Specification for Social Networking Website

Once the user has logged on, he can change the profile details by using the edit profile page. When the user reaches this page, data will be obtained from the register table (select query on the register table) and displayed in the respective text boxes. The user could change these details if he wishes to do so. After he finishes editing the details he can click the update button. When this button is clicked the new details will be updated in the register table. These new details will be selected from the register table during future references. Video Page: For video page we are going to use YouTube API. We will have search video option. After searching the videos, option will be provided to user for adding the video to his/her profile. For this functionality will add the ‘Embed’ details for that video will get added to video tables. All the profile videos will get displayed on the right hand side of the page. Image Page: On the image page we will have browse button. User will select the image file from his local machine and click on add Image. After adding the image, the image will be stored in the images folder on the server. And the URL of that image will be stored in the images tables. Below the browse button, all the images added for the current user will get displayed from images table.

Sell page: This page will allow the user to add the image of the product he wishes to sell. The uploaded image would be stored on the server and the image link would be saved in the sell table. Along with the product image the description of the product and the start price is entered in the sell table. The sell page would also have the option of adding more products if the user wishes to sell. In this scenario the entries would be added in the sell table. If the user wishes to see all the items which are up for sale, the user can click on the link “List Of All Items” .All the information about the products would be retrieved from the sell table. Buy Page: This page shows the Interface through which the user can Bid for the products available for the user. This page requires some validations like for example, the product seller must provide with an initial price. The bid value must be greater than the starting price. When the user selects the product to be bided from the drop down menu a query is fired to the buy table in the database which then retrieves the image and the corresponding details of the product and displays it on the right side. The user enters the bid value and selects buy to place the bid for the product. Now if the bid value is maximum and suitable then it is notified to the seller user to accept the bid or reject it. If the seller accepts it then the product is registered in the user’s name that bids for it and hence owns the product.

Blogging Page:

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3.4 Work Distribution of the Project: Designing phase:

High Level Design

1.Ambika Asthana 2. Puneet Agarwal

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Implementation phase:

Social Networking We bsit e

Ambika Asthana

Buy page with Valida tion

Puneet Agarwal Ambika Asthana

Video Page and messagi ng

Puneet Agarwal

User Profile and edit profile with validatio n

Ambika Asthana

Blogging Page with validation

Photos Page and login page, registratio n with validation

Conclusion We define social network sites as web-based services that allow individuals to (1) construct a public or semi-public profile within a bounded system, (2) articulate a list of other users with whom they share a connection, and (3) view and traverse their list of connections and those made by others within the system. The nature and nomenclature of these connections may vary from site to site. While we use the term "social network site" to describe this phenomenon, the term "social networking sites" also appears in public discourse, and the two terms are often used interchangeably. We chose not to employ the term "networking" for two reasons: emphasis and scope. "Networking" emphasizes relationship initiation, often between strangers. While networking is possible on these sites, it is not the primary practice on many of them, nor is it what differentiates them from other forms of computer-mediated communication (CMC). What makes social network sites unique is not that they allow individuals to meet strangers, but rather that they enable users to articulate and make visible their social networks. This can result in connections between individuals that would not otherwise be made, but that is often not the goal, and these meetings are frequently between "latent ties" (Haythornthwaite, 2005) who share some offline connection. On many of the large SNSs, participants are not necessarily "networking" or looking to meet new people; instead, they are primarily communicating with people who are already a part of their extended social network. To emphasize this articulated social network as a critical organizing feature of these sites, we label them "social network sites." Hope Frenzoholic will be able to provide with all these facilities and features to all of its users .

Bibliography This website frenzoholic has various bibliographic sources www.about.com , has provided me with the fullest information drenched up with all vital information . Various themes have been searched from www.bloggerspot.com to give a fabulous look to the website . Various other information about have been extracted from www.howstuffworks.com . Much information has been provided from www.wikipedia.org .