Elgg

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Elgg is an open source social networking platform built in PHP.

These links are particularly useful:

• Complete Elgg Documentation 1.0
• Short Elgg Documentation
• SVN Repository
• Bug Tracker

Contents 1 Relevant Features 1.1 Core Modules 1.2 Action Modules 1.3 Display Modules 1.4 Social Networking 2 Questions 3 Category Tree

Relevant Features

Core Modules

• Profile - Profile Module
• Groups - Group
  • You can create and moderate as many groups as you like
  • You can keep all group activity private to the group or you can use the 'make public' option to disseminate work to the wider public.
  • Each group produces granular RSS feeds, so it is easy to follow group developments
  • Each group has its own URL and profile
  • Each group comes with a file repository, forum, pages and messageboard

Action Modules

• File Repository - File Module
• Pages - Content Management System (CMS):Wiki Module

Display Modules

• Dashboard - Dashboard Module
  • Activity feed
  • Status
  • Widget plugins

Social Networking

• River - Social Networking:Activity Feed
• Status - Social Networking:Status
• Messages - Social Networking:Messaging
  • Inclusion of TinyMCE TBD
• Avatar - Social Networking:Avatar
  • Photo cropping
• Messageboard - Social Networking:Wall
  • Write and display public messages

Questions

• Actions - What does this mean? The traditional development method would be to create PHP scripts that handle each action individually. While plugin authors must still write code to handle each action, Elgg prefers to divert everything through a single, unified action handler, that provides security and minimises 404 errors. It also prevents authors from accidentally making their actions available to logged-out users (if they don't want them to be).
• Can we incorporate Elgg's language support functions?

Category Tree