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Elgg

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Elgg is an open source rapid development framework for socially aware web applications.



Features

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- **Well-documented core API** that allows developers to kick start their new project with a simple learning curve

- **Composer** is the package manager of choice that greatly simplifes installation and maintenance of Elgg core and plugins

- **Flexible system of hooks and events** that allows plugins to extend and modify most aspects of application's functionality and behavior

- **Extendable system of views** that allows plugins to collaborate on application's presentation layer and built out complex custom themes

- **Cacheable system of static assets** that allows themes and plugins to serve images, stylesheets, fonts and scripts bypassing the engine

- **User authentication** is powered by pluggable auth modules, which allow applications to implement custom authentication protocols

- **Security** is ensured by built-in anti CSRF validation, strict XSS filters, HMAC signatures, latest cryptographic approaches to password hashing

- **Client-side API** powered by asynchronous JavaScript modules via RequireJS and a build-in Ajax service for easy communication with the server

- **Flexible entity system** that allows applications to prototype new types of content and user interactions

-  **Opinionated data model** with a consolidated API layer that allows the developers to easily interface with the database

- **Access control system** that allows applications to build granular content access policies, as well as create private networks and intranets

- **Groups** - out of the box support for user groups

- **File storage** powered by flexible API that allows plugins to store user-generated files and serve/stream them without booting the engine

- **Notifications service** that allows applications to subscribe users to on-site and email notifications and implement integrations with other their-party services

- **RPC web services** that can be used for complex integrations with external applications and mobile clients

- **Internationalization** and localization of Elgg applications is simple and can be integrated with third-party services such as Transifex

- **Elgg community** that can help with any arising issues and hosts a repository of **1000+ open source plugins**



Under the hood:



- Elgg is a modular OOP framework that is driven by DI services

- NGINX or Apache compatible

- Symfony2 HTTP Foundation handles requests and responses

- RequireJS handles AMD

- Zend Mail handles outgoing email

- htmLawed XSS filters

- DBAL

- Phinx database migrations

- CSS-Crush for CSS preprocessing

- Imagine for image manipulation

* Persistent caching with Memcached and/or Redis

- Error handling with Monolog



Elgg Foundation

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Elgg is managed by the Elgg Foundation, a nonprofit organization that was

founded to govern, protect, and promote the Elgg open source social network

engine. The Foundation aims to provide a stable, commercially and

individually independent organization that operates in the best interest of Elgg

as an open source project.



The Elgg project was started in 2004 by

 - Ben Werdmuller (, )

 - Dave Tosh ().



License

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Copyright (c) 2008-2017, see COPYRIGHT.txt



Elgg is released under the GNU General Public License (GPL) Version 2 and the

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT-X11) License. 



See LICENSE.txt in the root of the package you downloaded.



Installation

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For installation instructions, see http://learn.elgg.org/en/stable/intro/install.html.



For upgrade instructions, see http://learn.elgg.org/en/stable/admin/upgrading.html.



Support

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The project site can be found at http://elgg.org/.



Visit http://learn.elgg.org for more information about Elgg.



Contributors

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For development credits, see CONTRIBUTORS.txt.