VIDEO AND AUDIO CONTENT ARE EFFECTIVE COMPONENTS OF SOCIAL NETWORK DEVELOPMENT
The questions of the necessity to develop a social network are considered. The developed social network is offered for publishing new posts, adding and removing other members from the friends list, personal correspondence with any member. Particular attention is paid to the issues of using video content and the reasons for the popularity of video content are determined. A simple and user-friendly design is proposed to accomplish the task. The functions of the user in the developed system are considered and the use cases diagram is constructed. The social network database is described. The choice of the PHP programming language for the task implementation is analyzed and substantiated. Features of use and advantages of Open Server and Bootstrap framework are considered. The use in the development of the social network Ajax - the technology of developing web-applications has been substantiated. The work of the developed social network on the part of the user and the administrator are described. Particular attention is paid to the authorization of the user on the network, for the safety of pages. The test results are presented to check the system's correctness and the compliance of its implementation with the requirements. The project has been uploaded to shared hosting, which makes the social network ready for use on the Internet