Meydan – PHP and MySQL Social Network

Meydan is a self-hosted social networking application built with PHP and MySQL. It provides the core features needed to create and manage an online community with member profiles, a news feed, private messaging, groups, pages, events, stories and short-video Reels.

The responsive interface supports desktop and mobile browsers, with English, German, French and Turkish language options included.

Member Profiles and News Feed

Members can create profiles with profile pictures, cover images and biographies. They can publish text, photo and video posts with public, friends-only or private visibility settings.

Social Interactions

The platform supports likes, comments, bookmarks, internal reposts, hashtags, user mentions, feelings and location information. Members can also manage friend requests, block users and control profile timeline posting permissions.

Stories and Reels

Members can publish stories with a 24-hour expiry and upload short-video Reels to share content with the community.

Messaging and Notifications

Meydan includes private messaging, desktop chat docks and a notification popover for member interactions.

Groups, Pages and Events

Create public or private groups, pages with follower functionality and events with participation features.

Administration and Moderation

A dedicated administration panel provides site settings, feature controls, moderation tools and administrator audit history.

Installation and Updates

The package includes readable application source code, a browser-based installation wizard, installation documentation and a command-line update tool.

Meydan is a self-hosted PHP and MySQL application. Its mobile support comes from the responsive web interface; native Android and iOS applications are not included.

• Responsive desktop and mobile web interface.

• English, German, French and Turkish languages.

• Member profiles with avatars, cover images and biographies.

• Username-based or random public-ID profile URLs.

• Text, photo and video posts.

• Public, friends-only and private post visibility.

• Likes, comments, bookmarks and internal reposts.

• Media viewer with post details and comments.

• Feelings, places, hashtags and user mentions.

• Stories with 24-hour expiry.

• Uploaded short-video Reels.

• Friend requests and user blocking.

• Profile timeline posting permissions.

• Private messaging and desktop chat docks.

• Notification popover.

• Public and private groups.

• Pages with follower functionality.

• Events with participation features.

• Dedicated administration and moderation panel.

• Site settings and feature controls.

• Administrator audit history.

• Browser-based installation wizard.

• Documented update process and readable source code.

• PHP 8.1 or newer.

• MySQL 5.7/8.x or MariaDB 10.4+.

• PDO MySQL, mbstring and fileinfo PHP extensions.

• PHP GD extension recommended for image processing.

• InnoDB and utf8mb4 database support.

• Apache with mod_rewrite and AllowOverride enabled, or equivalent Nginx configuration.

• HTTPS for production use.

• Writable uploads, storage and PHP session directories.

Recommended PHP settings:

• memory_limit: 192M

• upload_max_filesize: 20M

• post_max_size: 24M

No Composer, Node.js or build step is required.

Optional password-reset email delivery requires a working hosting mail() configuration. phpMyAdmin is optional and is not included.