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Luqman Shah
188 PointsSocial Networking website
I've been doing the social networking project recently, but I'm curious to how there would be a search engine to search for friends instead of looking on your friends list, and how there could be a chat/messaging feature. If you could add tutorials on how to add these two features onto a social networking website, that would be awesome! Thanks!
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John Paul Ashenfelter
1,118 PointsThanks for your answer Carl!
Luqman Shah
188 PointsYour welcome Mister Late
Carl Reyes
Courses Plus Student 7,225 PointsCarl Reyes
Courses Plus Student 7,225 PointsSearching should be pretty simple. Pull the names of your friends into an array presumably called 'friends'. Then do something like
//pretending that we're searching for 'sam' arr.select { |s| s.include? 'sam' }
and that will return ['sam']
or multiple sames whichever. Then you can just loop through that array and display whatever info you want just like you would in the 'statuses' tutorial on the rails application. A chat application is a little more complicated. I'd recommend reading about how to integrate socket.io and node.js into your website. Hope that helps!
--Carl