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 […]

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 […]