Elgg 1.8 Social Networking -- Table of Contents -- Elgg 1.8 Social Networking -- Credits -- Foreword -- About the Author -- About the Author of 1st edition -- About the Reviewers -- www.PacktPub.com -- Support files, eBooks, discount offers and more -- Why Subscribe? -- Free Access for Packt account holders -- Preface -- What this book covers -- What you need for this book -- Who this book is for -- Conventions -- Reader feedback -- Customer support -- Downloading the example code -- Errata -- Piracy -- Questions -- 1. Social Networking and Elgg -- Social features -- Profiles -- Relationships -- Content sharing -- Activity and notifications -- Groups -- Communication -- What is Elgg? -- The Elgg engine -- User management -- Privacy controls -- Theming -- Commenting -- Tagging -- Widgets -- Internationalization -- Feeds -- Web services -- The power of plugins -- Bundled plugins -- Third-party plugins -- Themes -- Building your own plugins -- Case studies -- Niche social network -- Designing and building the site -- Deploying the site -- Plugins mentioned -- Corporate intranet -- Designing and building the site -- Deploying the site -- Plugins mentioned -- Educational collaboration -- Designing and building the site -- Deploying the site -- Plugins mentioned -- Elgg resources -- Elgg community -- Elgg wiki -- Developer resources -- A few words of advice -- Take notes -- Save resources -- Be methodical -- Finding help -- Summary -- 2. Installing Elgg -- Preparing the server -- Checking requirements -- Downloading the latest version -- Extracting the files -- Moving files to your web server directory -- Configuring the server -- Create the database -- Run Elgg's installer -- Loading the database -- Configure Elgg -- Creating the admin account -- All done! -- Summary -- 3. A Tour of Your First Elgg Site -- Getting around -- Registering users.

User profiles and avatars -- Profile information -- Avatar -- Profile widgets -- Friends -- Activity stream -- Tools -- Blogs -- Bookmarks -- Files -- Groups -- Pages -- Messages -- The wire -- User settings -- Your settings -- Tools -- Notifications -- Administration -- Activating plugins -- Site categories -- Custom profile fields -- Default widgets -- Site pages -- Reported content -- Customizing your site -- User registration and authentication -- Widgets -- Friendship model -- Roles -- Help and support -- Summary -- 4. Sharing Content -- Blogs -- Creating a blog post -- Embedding photos and files -- Publishing -- Finding and viewing -- Search -- Lists of blog posts -- RSS feeds -- Widget -- Commenting -- Use cases -- Customizations -- Bookmarks -- Adding a bookmark -- Bookmarklet -- Viewing -- Use cases -- File -- Uploading a file -- Viewing -- Use cases -- Customizations -- The wire -- Posting -- Viewing -- Twitter integration -- Use cases -- Customizations -- Summary -- 5. Communities, Collaboration, and Conversation -- Groups -- Creating a group -- Group profile -- Membership -- Discussion forum -- Group tools -- Finding groups -- Use cases -- Customizations -- Pages -- Creating pages -- Viewing -- Use cases -- Customizations -- Messages -- Inbox -- Composing -- Customizations -- Message board -- Customizations -- Summary -- 6. Finding and Using Plugins -- Plugin administration -- Filtering and sorting -- Plugin dependencies -- Plugin settings -- Finding plugins -- Browsing the repository -- Searching -- Evaluating before downloading -- Look at the plugin overview -- Read the comments -- Check the history -- Custom plugins -- Installing plugins -- Test server -- Copying the code -- Activating and configuring -- Invalid plugin? -- Troubleshooting -- Themes -- Finding and installing themes -- Free themes -- Commercial themes -- Custom themes.

Installing themes -- Major community plugins -- Tidypics -- Plugin profile -- Administration -- Uploading photos -- Viewing photos -- Tagging photos -- Event calendar -- Plugin profile -- Administration -- Site calendar -- Group calendar -- Profile Manager -- Plugin profile -- Adding profile fields -- Configuring the profile fields -- Plugin settings -- Summary -- 7. Creating Your First Plugin -- What you need to know -- Elgg developer resources -- Setting up your development environment -- Editing code -- Configuring your site -- Hello, World! -- Plugin skeleton -- Create your plugin directory -- Plugin manifest -- Start script -- Activating the hello world plugin -- Register for the init, system event -- Adding a new route -- Creating a web page -- Update routing -- Add to the site menu -- Extending the page handler -- Add a sidebar menu -- Language support -- Personalizing the content -- Organizing your content into views -- A greeting view -- A stats view -- Review -- Debugging -- Debugging to the log -- Debugging to the screen -- Debugging PHP through an IDE -- Firebug and other browser development tools -- Elgg developer tools -- Inspect -- Theming sandbox -- Summary -- 8. Customization through Plugins -- Lesson 1: Changing wording -- Problem -- Solution -- Example -- Step 1: Create the plugin structure -- Step 2: Find the language strings -- Step 3: Override the language string -- Exercise -- Lesson 2: Modifying a section of a page -- Problem -- Solution -- Example -- Step 1: Find the view to override -- Step 2: Create the plugin structure -- Step 3: Edit the logo view -- Step 4: Style the header -- Exercise -- Lesson 3: Adding new content to a page -- Problem -- Solution -- Example -- Step 1: Find the view to extend -- Step 2: Create the plugin structure -- Step 3: Build our view -- Step 4: Make the tips random -- Exercise.

Lesson 4: Doing something when X happens -- Problem -- Solution -- Example -- Step 1: Find the event -- Step 2: Create the plugin structure -- Step 3: Write the function that sends the e-mail -- Exercise -- Lesson 5: Creating a custom widget -- Problem -- Solution -- Example -- Step 1: Create the plugin structure -- Step 2: Create the widget edit view -- Step 3: Create the widget content view -- Exercise -- Lesson 6: Giving your users options -- Problem -- Solution -- Example -- Step 1: Create the plugin structure -- Step 2: Add user settings -- Step 3: Create the toolbar view -- Step 4: Add CSS -- Exercise -- Lesson 7: Adding JavaScript -- Problem -- Solution -- Example -- Step 1: Create the plugin structure -- Step 2: Load the JavaScript file -- Step 3: Add CSS and JavaScript initialization -- Exercise -- Lesson 8: Changing how Elgg does X -- Problem -- Solution -- Example -- Step 1: Create the plugin structure -- Step 2: Create the index page -- Step 3: Define the views -- Step 4: Add the CSS -- Step 5: Add a plugin setting -- Exercise -- Lesson 9: Collecting and storing data -- Problem -- Solution -- Example -- Overview -- Step 1: Create the plugin structure -- Step 2: Create the main help page -- Step 3: Create the categories -- Step 4: Add an administration page -- Step 5: Create the form body -- Step 6: Create the save action -- Step 7: Create the help category page -- Step 8: Create the help object view -- Step 9: Add the help sidebar -- Step 10: Add CSS for the topic listing page -- Step 11: Finish the main help page -- Exercise -- Summary -- 9. Theming Elgg -- What you need to know -- Theming basics -- Elgg's default theme -- HTML -- CSS -- JavaScript -- Graphics -- Views system -- What is a view? -- Extending a view -- Overriding a view -- Template language -- Caching -- The viewtype -- Tools -- CSS framework.

Creating abstractions of common visual patterns -- Customizing objects through extension classes -- Adding external JavaScript and CSS -- Menu system -- Registering a menu item -- Rendering a menu -- Comparing theming in WordPress to Elgg -- Building a theme -- Plugin structure -- Layout -- Default layout -- Page header -- Page body layout -- Page footer -- Moving the search box -- Styling the sidebar module -- Moving the site menu to the topbar -- Creating a mobile theme -- Plugin structure -- Layout -- CSS -- Summary -- 10. Moving to Production -- Selecting a server -- Performance considerations -- Competing for resources -- Usage patterns -- General guidelines for server selection -- Hosting options -- Shared hosting -- Virtual Private Server -- Dedicated server -- Cloud hosting -- Hosting company selection -- Configuring a server -- Apache -- PHP -- MySQL -- Cron -- E-mail -- Managing the site -- Backup -- Code -- Database -- Files -- Server configuration -- Restoring -- Log rotation -- Spam -- Registration -- Detecting spammers -- Web analytics -- Daily tasks -- Monitoring user registration -- Reviewing reported content -- Responding to feedback -- Community management -- Testing, upgrading, and moving a site -- Testing -- Mirroring the production site -- Test plan -- Upgrading -- Moving a site -- Performance -- Benchmarking -- Monitoring and data collection -- Data -- Tools -- Stress testing -- Data -- Tools -- Easy performance gains -- Advanced performance tuning and scaling -- Caching -- Multiple servers -- Resources -- Reporting bugs -- Steps to reproduce the problem -- Elgg or plugin? -- Reporting the bug -- Summary -- A. Developer's Quick Start Guide -- Overview of Elgg as a framework -- What is Elgg? -- Object-oriented or procedural? -- Does it use the Model-View-Controller pattern? -- Convention or configuration? -- Is it extensible?.

What template engine is used?.