elgg/elgg

Elgg is an award-winning social networking engine, delivering the building blocks that enable businesses, schools, universities and associations to create their own fully-featured social networks and applications.

6.0.0-beta.1 2024-04-18 14:16 UTC

Requires

• php: >=8.1
• ext-gd: *
• ext-intl: *
• ext-json: *
• ext-pdo: *
• ext-xml: *
• composer/installers: >=1.0.8
• composer/semver: ~3.4.0
• css-crush/css-crush: ~4.1.0
• doctrine/dbal: ~4.0.1
• eloquent/composer-config-reader: ~3.0.0
• fakerphp/faker: ~1.23.0
• fortawesome/font-awesome: ~5.14
• guzzlehttp/guzzle: ~7.8.0
• hackzilla/password-generator: ~1.6.0
• imagine/imagine: ~1.3.0
• laminas/laminas-mail: ~2.4
• laminas/laminas-mime: 2.12.0
• laminas/laminas-servicemanager: ^3.3.1
• matthiasmullie/minify: ~1.3.0
• michelf/php-markdown: ~2.0.0
• misd/linkify: ~1.1.2
• monolog/monolog: ~3.6.0
• npm-asset/cropperjs: ~1.6.1
• npm-asset/jquery: ~3.7.1
• npm-asset/jquery-colorbox: ^1.6.4
• npm-asset/jquery-cropper: ~1.0.0
• npm-asset/jquery-ui: ~1.13.1
• npm-asset/jquery-ui-touch-punch: ~0.2.3
• npm-asset/normalize.css: ~8.0.1
• npm-asset/sprintf-js: ~1.1.2
• npm-asset/yaireo--tagify: ~4.22.0
• pelago/emogrifier: ~7.2.0
• peppeocchi/php-cron-scheduler: ~4.0
• php-di/php-di: ~7.0.6
• phpfastcache/phpfastcache: ~9.2.3
• react/promise: ~3.1.0
• roave/security-advisories: dev-master
• robmorgan/phinx: ~0.16.0
• symfony/console: ~6.4
• symfony/http-foundation: ~6.4
• symfony/mime: ~6.4
• symfony/routing: ~6.4
• symfony/var-dumper: ~6.4
• vanilla/htmlawed: ~2.2.15

Requires (Dev)

• elgg/sniffs: dev-master
• phpdocumentor/reflection-docblock: ^5.2
• phpunit/phpunit: ~10.5
• scrutinizer/ocular: ^1.9

Suggests

• ext-mbstring: *

GPL-2.0-only

README

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

Features

• 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 simplifies installation and maintenance of Elgg core and plugins
• Flexible system of 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 ES modules and a built-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
• modular javascript with ECMAScript modules
• Laminas 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

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 ([e-mail], http://benwerd.com)
• Dave Tosh (https://twitter.com/davetosh).

License

Copyright (c) 2008-2023, 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

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

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

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

Contributors

For development credits, see CONTRIBUTORS.txt.