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 […]

Extending actions in Elgg

Those eagle-eyed developers who have been tracking the Elgg core SVN may have noticed that I have recently committed a bunch of captcha related changes, including a simple captcha module. I just thought I’d write a quick post about it as this module makes use of a bit of Elgg functionality which has been around […]

Marcus Povey

Those eagle-eyed developers who have been tracking the Elgg core SVN may have noticed that I have recently committed a bunch of captcha related changes, including a simple captcha module. I just thought I’d write a quick post about it as this module makes use of a bit of Elgg functionality which has been around […]