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Elgg 1.8 Social Networking

You're reading from   Elgg 1.8 Social Networking Create, customize, and deploy your very own social networking site with Elgg with this book and ebook

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2012
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849511308
Length 384 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (21) Chapters Close

Elgg 1.8 Social Networking
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
About the Author of 1st edition
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Social Networking and Elgg FREE CHAPTER 2. Installing Elgg 3. A Tour of Your First Elgg Site 4. Sharing Content 5. Communities, Collaboration, and Conversation 6. Finding and Using Plugins 7. Creating Your First Plugin 8. Customization through Plugins 9. Theming Elgg 10. Moving to Production Developer's Quick Start Guide Views Catalog Index

Lesson 5: Creating a custom widget


Elgg's widget system is demonstrated through this lesson.

Problem

You need to add some custom content to your users' profiles. This may be information related to the purpose of the site (a site for sports fans could allow members to display the schedule for their favorite team on their profiles). It could be statistics about how many people have read their latest blog posts or looked through their newest photos. You may want to add a special welcome to new members or provide links to featured content.

Solution

Elgg has a widget framework that makes it easy to add content like that described above to profiles and dashboards. All that is required to create a new widget is adding two views and registering the widget. Elgg handles all of the details.

Example

In this example, we are adding a widget that welcomes new users and provides a list of useful links. We allow the user to set the number of links that are displayed. The widget looks like the following screenshot...

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