The Export Interface

One of the more hidden features of Elgg is the Export interface. In a nutshell this interface provides an export view for Entities, Metadata, Annotations and relationships which can provide a convenient way of accessing data objects in a machine readable form. Endpoints The export url is constructed in different ways for entities, relationships and […]

Marcus Povey

One of the more hidden features of Elgg is the Export interface. In a nutshell this interface provides an export view for Entities, Metadata, Annotations and relationships which can provide a convenient way of accessing data objects in a machine readable form. Endpoints The export url is constructed in different ways for entities, relationships and […]

Post processing Elgg views – Trac tags example

There are a number of ways that an Elgg plugin developer can manipulate views via the powerful Elgg views system. Most Elgg programmers are by now familiar with extending or replacing existing views, or providing new views for new objects etc. But what if you just wanted to make a simple tweak to an existing […]

Marcus Povey

There are a number of ways that an Elgg plugin developer can manipulate views via the powerful Elgg views system. Most Elgg programmers are by now familiar with extending or replacing existing views, or providing new views for new objects etc. But what if you just wanted to make a simple tweak to an existing […]

Loosely coupled Elgg extensions (Captcha example)

One thing we try and do when working on a new Elgg feature is – where we can – couple things together as loosely as possible and provide hooks for third party developers to extend Elgg and fill in any blanks. A good example of where this has been done is the newly introduced Captcha […]

Marcus Povey

One thing we try and do when working on a new Elgg feature is – where we can – couple things together as loosely as possible and provide hooks for third party developers to extend Elgg and fill in any blanks. A good example of where this has been done is the newly introduced Captcha […]