Category Archives: Elgg

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I use the Crayon syntax highlighting plugin in order to display code on this blog. Recently I upgrade my server to PHP 7.3, which broke a fair few things, including this plugin.

Unfortunately, it looks like this plugin is no longer being maintained – the latest stable release was three years ago, and the latest commit on their GitHub was over a year ago.

Never fear, open source is here!

If you’re using the stable version, open up crayon_langs.class.php and change crayon_langs.class.php:340 from this:

preg_replace('/[^\w-+#]/msi', '', $id);

To this:

preg_replace('/[^\w\-+#]/msi', '', $id);

Notice the escaping before the - character.

Should work now.

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Well it’s been a little while since I’ve blogged anything about Elgg, hasn’t it?

So, here’s a quick plugin that enables you to switch on a simple per-user link tracking for selected divs within your site.

I wrote this as I needed to quickly track links within certain sections of a site (rather than everywhere, where something like Piwik would have been more appropriate).

Hopefully it’s useful to you!

» Visit the project on Github...

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Just a quick one, and primarily to help myself out, I put together a very quick and dirty Vagrant wrapper for Elgg development. I found myself repeating myself quite a bit when it comes to putting together build environments, and working with other people, so it made sense to put together a quick vagrant build to help out my team.

This project acts as a wrapper around whatever Elgg site you happen to be developing, and provides a stable install environment based on Ubuntu Xenial, mariadb and PHP 7.0.

I hope it’ll be useful to you!

» Visit the project on Github...