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What is Elgg ? Elgg built on LAMP and is open source Roll out your own social network Bundles social networking components Building on Elgg is easy

Elgg built on LAMP and is open source

Roll out your own social network

Bundles social networking components

Building on Elgg is easy

Components Pages RSS Files Tags Comment Blog Messages Widgets Friends/Groups Forum

Features Advanced user management and administration Cross-site tagging Powerful access control list Internationalization support Multiple view support (eg. cell phone, iPhone) Advanced templating engine Widget framework Opensocial support

Advanced user management and administration

Cross-site tagging

Powerful access control list

Internationalization support

Multiple view support (eg. cell phone, iPhone)

Advanced templating engine

Widget framework

Opensocial support

Customize Page

Elgg Data Model

Events Events triggered when certain things happen User Action Callbacks Special Events (Boot, Init) Hook has to be registered to handle the specific events register_elgg_event_handler('init','system','entities_init');

Events triggered when certain things happen

User Action

Callbacks

Special Events (Boot, Init)

Hook has to be registered to handle the specific events

Views Elgg site can support different interface pages Standard HTML HTML optimised for accessibility Mobile Internet iPhone Embeddable widget

Elgg site can support different interface pages

Standard HTML

HTML optimised for accessibility

Mobile Internet

iPhone

Embeddable widget

Plugins Most of the end user functionality in Elgg comes from plugins Plugins reside under /mod folder start.php : control hub of a plugin Register plugin inside Elgg init event register_elgg_event_handler('init','system','entities_init');

Most of the end user functionality in Elgg comes from plugins

Plugins reside under /mod folder

start.php : control hub of a plugin

Register plugin inside Elgg init event

Creating a Simple Blog Plugin Create Form Create Object View <h1><?php echo $vars['entity']->title; ?></h1> <p><?php echo $vars['entity']->body; ?></p> <?php echo elgg_view('output/tags', array('tags' => $vars['entity']->tags)); ?> <form action=&quot;<?php echo $vars['url']; ?>action/blog/save&quot; method=&quot;post&quot;> <?php echo elgg_echo(&quot;title&quot;); ?><br /> <?php echo elgg_view('input/text',array('internalname' => 'title')); ?> <?php echo elgg_echo(&quot;body&quot;); ?><br /> <?php echo elgg_view('input/longtext',array('internalname' => 'body')); ?> <p><?php echo elgg_echo(&quot;tags&quot;); ?><br /> <?php echo elgg_view('input/tags',array('internalname' => 'tags')); ?></p> <p><input type=&quot;submit&quot; value=&quot;<?php echo elgg_echo('save'); ?>&quot; /></p> </form>

Create Form

Create Object View

Contd… Create Save File $blogpost = new ElggObject(); $blogpost->title = get_input('title'); $blogpost->description = $description; $blogpost->access_id = ACCESS_PUBLIC; $blogpost->owner_guid = $_SESSION['user']->getGUID(); $blogpost->save(); $blogpost->tags = string_to_tag_array(get_input('tags')); forward($blogpost->getURL()); Display Blog require_once(dirname(dirname(dirname(__FILE__))).engine/start.php&quot;); $body = list_entities('object','blog',0,10,false); $body = elgg_view_layout('one_column', $body); page_draw(&quot;Our Blog&quot;,$body);

Create Save File

Display Blog

Business Opportunities in Elgg Education (Social E-learning) Universities Schools Social Intranet for organizations Employee activities Knowledge base Company events Custom Social Networks

Education (Social E-learning)

Universities

Schools

Social Intranet for organizations

Employee activities

Knowledge base

Company events

Custom Social Networks

Profile

Groups

Dashboard

Files

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