What do we want?
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A PHP-based dating system.
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Technical Aspects
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• Must be coded in PHP/MySQL
• Code must be transferable – we must be able to reuse the code on another site in the future with no trouble
• Template-based design – we are willing to work with a Smarty-based design [login to view URL]
• Optimized for a large number of visitors
• Secure
User Aspects
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• The site must be simple enough to navigate for even novice users
• Users create profiles of themselves including text, images, audio and video
• These profiles are searchable by other users
• Users have the ability to mark profiles as ‘favourites’ for later viewing
• Each user can have any number of media galleries that can be viewed by others
o The browser must be able to add individual images to their own ‘favourites’ gallery
o Images, video and audio can be added to the gallery
• Each user automatically becomes an affiliate of the site
o They can send other people to the site with their username in the URL
o They then receive a percentage of the fee if the visitor signs up for the site
• Users can communicate with one another
o Via email
? Initial contact made from an email form on the Adult Search website
? Adult Search can provide a webmail address for each user
? Each email sent from this server must include advertising at the bottom of the mail, the same idea as hotmail
o Via SMS – paid server
? Users can purchase SMS credits from us
? The sender’s number is sent with the first SMS
? The user’s phone number is never displayed on the site
o Via live flash-based chat ([login to view URL] or similar)
o Via forum (please integrate an existing secure product)
• The site will also offer various portal-like features
o Business Directory
? Must allow for paid, time-limited ads that expire automatically and notify the advertiser when expiry is about to occur
? Must automatically email advertisers with monthly reports about viewing statistics (views, clicks etc)
o Adult News (delivered via RSS feed to the site)
o Australian weather
o Adult links
? Links to movie galleries and image galleries
• Only one login should be required for the entire site
Administrator Aspects
• The site must provide a secure administrative login
• The site must generate detailed reports on traffic, statistics and financial details
• Administrator must be able to add/edit/delete user accounts
• Administrator must be able to send email messages to users – individually, and as a newsletter
• Must be able to use Google Adwords
• URLs must be search-engine friendly
. Administrator can add/edit/delete galleries, news, business links and other aspects of the portal
Payment Capabilities
• The developer must integrate the system with our payment gateway (Mastercard MIGS interface)
We have a detailed Software Requirements Specification that we can supply upon request to serious bidders only. Whilst every effort has been made to make this SRS exhaustive, it should be expected that some changes will be required.
In your response please include URLs of previous work. Bidders with no examples will not be looked into.
This is a large project, and we are expecting it to be completed in a reaonable timeframe. Please do not under-assess the time needed to complete this project.
For examples of existing websites that display similar functionality to what we require, please refer to:
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