Using Elgg’s REST-like API

Another one of Elgg‘s less documented but very powerful features is the ability to expose functionality from the core and user modules in a standard way via a REST like API. This gives you the opportunity to develop interoperable web services and provide them to the users of your site, all in a standardised way. […]

Marcus Povey

Another one of Elgg‘s less documented but very powerful features is the ability to expose functionality from the core and user modules in a standard way via a REST like API. This gives you the opportunity to develop interoperable web services and provide them to the users of your site, all in a standardised way. […]

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 […]

Friendfeed Activity Widget (bugfix)

On this blog, I use the Friendfeed Activity Widget plugin developed by Evan Sims to display my friendfeed (eyes right). This plugin appears to have a bug whereby items with thumbnails (flickr, youtube etc) will not display correctly. This may possibly be just on my site as nobody else seems to have reported the issue. […]

Marcus Povey

On this blog, I use the Friendfeed Activity Widget plugin developed by Evan Sims to display my friendfeed (eyes right). This plugin appears to have a bug whereby items with thumbnails (flickr, youtube etc) will not display correctly. This may possibly be just on my site as nobody else seems to have reported the issue. […]