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1 online resource (xiii, 354 pages) : illustrations |
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Community experience distilled |
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Community experience distilled.
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Machine generated contents note: ch. 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 -- ch. 2 Installing Elgg |
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Note continued: 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 -- ch. 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 -- ch. 4 Sharing Content -- Blogs |
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Note continued: 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 -- ch. 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 -- ch. 6 Finding and Using Plugins -- Plugin administration -- Filtering and sorting -- Plugin dependencies -- Plugin settings -- Finding plugins |
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Note continued: 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 -- ch. 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 |
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Note continued: 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 -- ch. 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 |
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Note continued: 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 |
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Note continued: 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 -- ch. 9 Theming Elgg -- What you need to know -- Theming basics |
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Note continued: 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 -- ch. 10 Moving to Production -- Selecting a server -- Performance considerations -- Competing for resources -- Usage patterns -- General guidelines for server selection -- Hosting options -- Shared hosting |
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Note continued: 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 -- Stress testing -- 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 -- Appendix A Developer's Quick Start Guide -- Overview of Elgg as a framework |
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Note continued: 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? -- A Model-View-Controller perspective of Elgg -- Overview -- Controllers -- Model -- Views -- Routing -- Code location -- Actions -- Code location -- Page handlers -- Code location -- Framework booting -- Code location -- Data model -- Entities -- Type and subtype -- GUID -- Owner -- Container -- Access -- Database -- Relationships -- Extenders -- Database -- Retrieval functions -- Code location -- Views -- View templates -- Page shells and layout -- View type -- Overriding and extending views -- Special views -- Code location -- Events and hooks -- Elgg events -- Plugin hooks -- Code location -- Plugins -- Initialization -- Plugin order -- Conventions -- Themes -- Code location -- Activity stream -- Code location -- Notifications -- Code location |
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Note continued: Internationalization and localization -- Code location -- Lightning round -- Authentication -- Caching -- Configuration -- Debugging and logging -- JavaScript -- Menus -- Private settings -- Search -- Security -- Session handling -- Unit tests -- Web services -- Widgets -- Summary -- Appendix B Views Catalog -- Using views -- Page structure -- Shells -- Layouts -- Elements -- Topbar -- Header -- Sidebar -- Footer -- Owner block -- Status messages -- Comments -- Search box -- Components -- Gallery -- Image block -- List -- Module -- Navigation -- Breadcrumbs -- Pagination -- Menus -- Topbar menu -- Site menu -- Page menu -- Footer menu -- User hover menu -- Entity menu -- Tabs -- Forms -- Input -- Access -- Buttons -- Checkboxes -- Date -- Drop-down selector -- File upload -- Hidden input -- Large textarea -- Password -- Radio buttons -- Textbox -- User pickers -- Output -- Date -- E-mail address -- Link -- Tag cloud -- Tags -- Text -- The form |
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Note continued: Users, groups, and objects -- Activity stream -- Likes -- Like this -- List users -- Widgets -- Administration -- Summary |
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Print version record |
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Online social networks.
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Social networks -- Computer programs
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Online social networks
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Electronic book
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