Its a question of time

Sometimes things need to be done without user interaction – for example, database optimisation or log rotation. For this, Elgg has a cron endpoint. Cron is a unix tool which executes commands at a specific time of day (other operating systems have similar tools). This keys off a file called a crontab – an example […]

Marcus Povey

Sometimes things need to be done without user interaction – for example, database optimisation or log rotation. For this, Elgg has a cron endpoint. Cron is a unix tool which executes commands at a specific time of day (other operating systems have similar tools). This keys off a file called a crontab – an example […]

Weekly roundup: SMS, Twitter, OFE and The Wire

It has been a busy week! We started the week with the ongoing push towards Elgg 1.1, including a number of bug fixes and some translations. The biggest change this week was to move sessions over to a database store – this provides more scalability options as well as making things more secure on shared […]

Marcus Povey

It has been a busy week! We started the week with the ongoing push towards Elgg 1.1, including a number of bug fixes and some translations. The biggest change this week was to move sessions over to a database store – this provides more scalability options as well as making things more secure on shared […]

Overriding icons

Following on from my previous post about doing things the Elgg way, I thought I’d illustrate some of what I was talking about by building out a quick plugin while the kettle boiled for my tea. This plugin uses the hooks present in Elgg – specifically the getIcon() api – to provide Gravatar icons for […]

Marcus Povey

Following on from my previous post about doing things the Elgg way, I thought I’d illustrate some of what I was talking about by building out a quick plugin while the kettle boiled for my tea. This plugin uses the hooks present in Elgg – specifically the getIcon() api – to provide Gravatar icons for […]