Syndicating friends activity using OpenDD

You are probably all aware of the concept of the River in terms of social networking platforms; being able to see what your friends have been up to as a list of events – what they have been doing, who they have made their friend etc. This feature – made popular by the facebook “mini-feed” […]

Marcus Povey

You are probably all aware of the concept of the River in terms of social networking platforms; being able to see what your friends have been up to as a list of events – what they have been doing, who they have made their friend etc. This feature – made popular by the facebook “mini-feed” […]

Changes to the river code

The latest Elgg 1.0 code changes how the river works slightly from that discussed in my previous article on the subject. These changes are entirely under the hood so they’ll only be noticeable to plugin writers, however it simplifies matters immeasurably and makes it possible to do some quite funky things. In a nutshell, the […]

Marcus Povey

The latest Elgg 1.0 code changes how the river works slightly from that discussed in my previous article on the subject. These changes are entirely under the hood so they’ll only be noticeable to plugin writers, however it simplifies matters immeasurably and makes it possible to do some quite funky things. In a nutshell, the […]

Adding to the River in an Elgg 1 plugin

In Elgg 1, we will finally have native support for a River – that is, a stream of short updates of what you and your friends are up to on your profile. Here is a short post explaining how you as a plugin writer could add river reporting to your code! Events The key to […]

Marcus Povey

In Elgg 1, we will finally have native support for a River – that is, a stream of short updates of what you and your friends are up to on your profile. Here is a short post explaining how you as a plugin writer could add river reporting to your code! Events The key to […]