[ I found the following post on my blog on elgg.org. Apparently I posted it there instead of in this community by mistake. I was wondering why nobody answered ]

I just tried to put the new themes found in the file archive section of this community in my  $CFG->templatesroot directory, but they did not seem to be picked up by elgg. Elgg does see them if I put the themes in mod/templates/ (as per line 1058 of lib/templates:

[code=PHP] if ($templates = get_list_of_plugins('mod/template/templates','theme_master')) { [/code] ,

but even so, they do not get applied (visualizing them gives just the default template, for example)

Everything works well if I do not consider  $CFG->templatesroot at all, and put all my site customizations of the default template in mod/template/templates/Default Template. Is that how we are suppossed to work, and will $CFG->templatesroot be retired from now on?

(what I actually did was putting my templates where I wantes, and hard-coding this path in line  1058 of templates.php) 

is there any way to do this?

 

-Leif 

I am trying to change some text in the language file for en_GB.  I noticed that none of the changes are showing up on my webpage.

 I read up the language file in the documentation, and see that you need to compile the .po file to create elgg.mo.

 However, I use a shared server and do not have access to the command line to complie.

 What is my alternative to change the text in the language file?

Hello!Does anyone know how to configure server to use non-english tags (written in Bulgarian for example) in Tag cloud.The tags are displayed correctly in my language(BG-windows-1251), but when clicked, an error 404 is received or Searching ????????? with no result returned.Any ideas?

In the implementation of the private messages plug-in I want to use the tinymce editor for the message body. I was reading some code until I figure out what I must to do.

Here the instructions:

1. Include the following line in the file where you configure the functions used by your plug-in:

   $function['messages:new:body'][] = $CFG->dirroot . "units/tinymce/tinymce_js.php";

2. In the page where you want to include the tinymce add the following code:

   $run_result .= templates_draw(array ( 'context' => 'databoxvertical', 'name' => $message, 'contents' => display_input_field(array ( "field_name", "", "weblogtext" ) )));

3. Finally after the body initialization run:

   run('messages:new:body',array(array("field_name"));

   Notes:
   • The first param must be the same specified in the point one.
   • The second param its and array from an array with the name of the field(s) that you want to use with the tinymce editor

so my host allows for site level control of php versions - i had installed elgg on 4.X and it was all good, but then i popped in today and clicked to change it to php5 - and it seems a little bit faster (which i sort of hoped for)

okay, so it appears that there are now at least three people having this "archives problem" and i may have found a solution through a long discussion with a php-savvy tech support guy.

when i login as news it gives me a blank screen in firefox, and in IE it gives  aserver error. Any ideas?

 

***UPDATE now when i try to login using the news username it asks me if i want to download index.php.....any ideas? 

 

-Leif 

so i just set up a google coop account for my site, linked it to adsense, and it works very well...

where would i go to edit th layout for the profile page, and what file deals with the sidebar that has the login info on it, i have some design things that i need to do to both of these sections.

thanks!

 -Leif

The next released version of Elgg will have built-in deletion of users and communities. It's been a long time coming, and for good reason: because Elgg can be installed with a growing collection of plugins, each of which may have their own custom data, user deletion can be a pain.

However, here's how it works. Plugin authors should take the following into account.

A function, user_delete($user_id), sits in userlib.php and can be called at any time. It will in turn call event_hook("user","delete",$user), causing any plugins that have hooked into the event to have their functions called. Currently in SVN, all of the applicable core plugins have this implemented.

How to do this:

In yourplugin_init(), include the following line:

    listen_for_event("user","delete","yourplugin_user_delete"); 

And then the following function:

     function yourplugin_user_delete($object_type, $event, $object) {

        // Code to delete any user data your plugin creates goes here

        // You must pass $object back unless something goes wrong!

           return $object;

     }

$object is a dump of the users table row containing the user to be deleted. In other words, it will contain $object->ident, $object->username, etc - but no data about the user beyond what's in the table row.

If your plugin doesn't save any user-created data - ignore this post. But everyone else should take note, because if you don't implement the above your plugin could have unexpected consequences. 

This will be in Elgg 0.8, which is a little way off - but consider yourselves prewarned.

so i'm creating a new "very user friendly" version of the help documentation, built from the wiki here on elgg along with some assorted edits and additions (taht way i can continuosly update it over time for major changes)

At  the top of the sreen when you are logged in there is an include that says {{menu}} is it possible to edit what is inside this include? For example if i wanted to remove "My Dashobard" and add a new item...Is this possible wihtout the use of plugins? I know you can change the name but i need to remove whole items.

 Another great example is this site when logged in i see 8 buttons in my top toolbar...how can i do that....

-Leif 

Upon installing the calendar plugin I was met with the following:

How do you give another user admin rights?

(keep in mind that i can not login as "News" for some reason it just gives me a blank page, and to get back to the site i have to clear my cookies see post: http://elgg.org/developers/weblog/227.html )

 

When you go to edit the profile for communites, it has a differnet set of fields...where is this defined?

 Thanks again for everyones help!

 -Leif

  

Hi,

how do I increase the session timeout?

I tried to set for 1 second, just for testing, and it's not working. I wrote this at config.php:

 

 $CFG->sessiontimeout = "1";

 

What is wrong? Does PHP have a minimum timeout? I saw at lib/setup.php we have this

 

 if (!empty($CFG->sessiontimeout)) { 

 

           ini_set('session.gc_maxlifetime', $CFG->sessiontimeout);
        }

And PHP manual says  session.gc_maxlifetime is define as "1440" (seconds = 24 minutes).

How do I set a longer session timeout?

Hi,

 tryed elgg first time today during looking for a good sicial networking tool. Big up to all the developers, nice work. I really like it.

There is one issue: how could i create non-Profile pages like the page documentation or plugin and how could i integrate them to the toolbar?

 Thanks and kind regards

 

stefan 

Hi all,

I have a few problem with these 2 tags ({{randomusers}} & {{populartags}}) that can be applied on the Front page (loggedout)

First, the {{randomusers}} always states there are no profiles: "Sorry, no users have filled in their profiles yet", even though I've added a few and completed the profiles to test.

Second, using {{populartags}} generates an error in lib\templates.php - in the foreach statement, lines 1442 and 1449

does anyone have any ideas?

Hi.

I'm new to elgg but I'm very excited about elgg. We are planning to start several Communites for Customers and first looked at Drupal but we are now planning to use elgg as it seems to work better for our purposes.

My (first) question i: Is it possible to use Dropdown Boxes in the profile. I want to give the user a few choices and want him to select one.

Is this feature already implemented?

 

Thanks in advance for your answers and thanks to all elgg developers for their great work.

Greetings from Germany

 

Sven 

Hey, whats up everyone!  I just got elgg and I really like it. Theres a few things I want to alter in my site but I haven't touched php in a year or two so I a bit rusty.  Plus elgg has a million files spread out all over so it's hard to find what your looking for.  So please help me out.  

 In the broswer page, where all the people on the show up, what file do I have to alter so can I make it so a person's image shows up by default?  In other words, I don't want to click on show icons, instead I want the icons to show up by default.  Also can you tell me which file i have to alter so that I can delete the categories "descriptions, connections, posts, and type" from the broswer page.  Thanks alot

I haven't found the existing development docs to be very helpful.  I'm very interested in helping to develop the core functionality of elgg.  I am also looking at using this platform for several of my nonprofit clients.  

However, I haven't been able to make much headway in understanding the underlying architecture, and how different files and templates relate to one another...  I'm an experienced PHP developer so my challenges mostly lie in understanding the underlying architecture and the thought process behind the elgg design.

Any info you can provide would really be helpful.

Thanks,

Lucas 

In elgg-0.7, I found the bug, you can try it right now :)

If blog text contains "\x", x is a number, e.g. "0"

• The generated RSS xml is wrong, because "\x" is translated into ascii, this generates a RSS feeds that not readable by RSS readers if ascii code x is not a XML allowed character.
• When edit the post, the "\x" is extended to "\xxx" in the edit box.
  

My fix:

• units/weblogs/weblogs_posts_edit.php, line 41, remove "stripslashes"
• units/weblogs/function_rss_getitems.php, line82, remove "stripslashes"
• lib/displaylib.php, line155, remove "stripslashes"
  

 I am not familar with PHP and web programming, not sure this fix is right or not, but looks it work. Can anybody tell me a decent solution?

Hi,

I just registered for an account here, and was dismayed to find that:

1. there is no way to register securely. Elgg.org does not appear to offer access via HTTPS
2. my password was sent to me in a plain-text email, which I did not request.
3. I changed my password after receiving the email, but again could not do so securely.
4. When changing my password, different constraints were applied to the allowed characters than those applied during registration. During registration I was able to include punctuation symbols in my password, but while editing my Account settings I was not.

All told, the lack of password security is a major drawback for me in wanting to use this site.

What's worse, is that since the mailing lists have been moved into on-site communities, there is no way for me to interact with other user Elggers without using this (insecure) site. Thus, the insecure login becomes a drawback to using Elgg at all.

Thanks,
Jeffrey

so i was looking over this code via www.miniajax.com (some amazing scripts there btw!) and there's this one particular item that would be an amazing item to put on an elgg home page on any installation: http://leftlogic.com/info/articles/jquery_spy

Hola elgg developers --

If anyone has gotten this combo to work, could you  please post the resulting images into your files and point them out. I've been trying in vain for about a day and can't seem to get xdebug to work.

Quite frankly, I'd much rather be spending my time developing plugins and such, rather than trying to understand how files/functions talk to eachother. Sven you mentioned these in an earlier post? Is the posting possible?

The way I see it, if more transparency exists on HOW elgg works, then developers, including myself, will be much more eager to hop on and help out! Thanks ahead of time!

Cheers,
Ryan

[Bringing this up again, because I really didn't understand the answers last time. Sorry if I seem to insist, but this is really important to us ]

Has anyone else got problems with templates? I just tried, with a recent svn (r1027) elgg to drop in another template into, say, mod/template/tempates/Diferential. If I choose this template, there are two problems: first, the template does not change until after a page-reload, giving the impression to the user that nothing happened. Second, the images referenced in the css with {{templateroot}} are not found. 

 http://localhost/elgg/_templates/css/Differential/images just gives back the whole css. A related question is, what should $CFG-templatesroot be, an absolute or relative path. It cannot be a relative path because of $template['pageshell'] = file_get_contents($CFG->templatesroot . "Default_Template/pageshell"); in units/templates/default_template.php. but it also cannot be an absolute path, because then the {{templatesroot}} tags in the css file are not expanded correctly.

I saw a plugin that adds metatags to all pages. Is there a way to put a metatag in just page. For example, I want the metatag for the feed for all posts in the frontpage/all blogs page.

We are being invaded by spam: http://elgg.org/mod/forum/forum_view_thread.php?post=17

I recommend the CAPTCHA plugin, which has worked for us so far.  

I'm trying to install the Elgg platform for the first time...  It's telling me that this isn't set, but I'm not sure what to set this to...  I set:

 

    $CFG->wwwroot 

 

So what do I set $CFG->dirroot to?

 

Thanks! 

I'm sure this has been posted before (or may even be in svn), but I just made a quick modification so that the blogsummary keyword actually displays a summary and thought maybe others may look for it.

In mod/blog/lib.php, the blog_summary_keyword function around line 228.  You will see a for loop dishing out the goods to a $body variable. I simply added:

$body .= "<p class="frontpage-blog-body">" . substr($post->body,0,350) .
"</p>";
 

 Note, this is a rough hack...it has no error checking to strip out stray html tags that may be in the body text.....

Hi all,

we have built an experimental social network site based on ELGG 0.6 at http://calumet.unibo.it and we believe the concept behind this software is the most important one these days.

Unfortunately the more we try getting the grips with the software, the more we get stuck in a sort of dumb behaviour, which I would like to outline here.

In today's specific case, I am trying to put a text in for the Terms & Conditions to use the website.

By looking at the URL when I click on "Terms and Conditions", I see the file is

content/terms.php

which essentially has just one line of code inside:

        echo templates_page_draw( array(
                    sprintf(gettext("%s Terms &amp; Conditions"),sitename),
                    templates_draw(array(
                                                    'contents' => $the_content,
                                                    'name' => sprintf(gettext("%s Terms &amp; Conditions"),sitename),
                                                    'context' => 'contentholder'
                                                )
                                                )
           )
           );

Okay.

Now, after verifying that $the_content has some value in it, the page shows a standard page with absolutely no content. It seems there is no way to se whym nor to troubleshoot this kind of problems.

In hundreds of hours developing on ELGG I have been stuck in this situation hundreds of times: you get no content and there's absolutely no hint about where the problem is.

Is there any way to see what I am missing? If the values I specified in the call to template_draw() are wrong, is there any way to see it?

I feel this is a key issue in designing a system that's likely to be open to modifications.

This do-all function, template_draw, is making us loose any chance of backtracking execution flow, it seems there is no way of understanding what the system is expecting me to pass as parameters, no way of understanding how to fix things. 

We developers make mistakes and there have to be a way to see what the system is "thinking", if there is some parameter missing or wrong, we need to figure it out.

Is there any way to get "the system by the balls" and understand why there's no output in this and similar cases?

Any link to some documentation explaining how the units/mods/content are structured and interlinked would be of great help, I have visited the doc WIKI and eventually got lost without finding an architecture overview.

Thanks in advance for any help you might give,

 

I've seen orkut is going to lauch a poll tool. I liked very much its features: you can make comments, stipulate a date for finishing the poll, add a picture for the poll and for each item and so on.

You can see an example here:

Which Linux distro do you use?

Login: elgguest

Password:  elgguest2007

Is someone working on a poll plugin?

I am trying to add a help link to the {{topmenu}} where can I find the necessary file?

 

 

Thank you

Hi I am getting the following error after a new installation:

 Warning: main(/lib/cache/lib.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /hsphere/local/home3/bcnloft/3hands.org/elgg/includes.php on line 78 Fatal error: main(): Failed opening required '/lib/cache/lib.php' (include_path='.:/hsphere/shared/apache/libexec/php4ext/php/') in /hsphere/local/home3/bcnloft/3hands.org/elgg/includes.php on line 78

 

Does anyone have an idea?  it is published at www.3hands.org/elgg/

thanks!!
mauricio

Elgg version 0.7
MediaWiki version 1.9.3

Due to setting of a directory level cookie of elgg which leads to mediawiki not being able to access the cookie (this can be solved by changing the $CFG->cookiepath in setup.php) I thought I would try and install mediawiki in the mods directory.

The problem I have now is when I go to log in elgg comes up with the following error:

Unknown language code: classes in /opt/virtualHost/elgg/htdocs/mod/mediaWiki/languages/. Please ask the system administrator to configure this properly.

Unknown language code: messages in /opt/virtualHost/elgg/htdocs/mod/mediaWiki/languages/. Please ask the system administrator to configure this properly.

As I am the system administrator I have asked myself to configure it properly but realised I don't know how to.

Any help gratefully received.

Hi all,

Those of you interested in contributing to the Elgg software may want to check out the Elgg coding wishlist, which has just been updated with some new information. Developers engaging in these developments will receive support from the Elgg team, as well as kudos and the knowledge that they've made a substantial contribution to an open source project.

To claim a job, just move it to the claimed section of the page; feel free to send us a message as well if you'd like help. 

to double check, just today i used the web interface to subversion, i navigated to:

so i have a blog running on wordpress, it appears perfectly in my list of resources within elgg, and i can view content, but when i click to publish to blog it presents the confirmation but does not in fact publish to the blog...any ideas?

Apparently the new widgets and their data have the same database scheme. Does anyone know the SQL incantations to migrate the old dashboard data of my users to the new widgets?

Quick note: I run my developer instances with $CFG->debug = 2047. I was trying out the new ajax manage widget stuff (very nice!) and things were not working. With the help of the Firebug extension, I found out that there where notices about not initialized variables going on, but they were invisible because with this ajax stuff the server is talking to the client behind the scenes.

Anyway, the solution is to edit the line $result .= "<xml .... into $result = "<xml ..." This should be done in the four mod/widget/ajax_* files. Now you can have ajaxy drag and drop goodness also with debug notices on. By the way: thank god for Firebug! This would have been impossible to debug without it.

Related: I think there should be an interface to the non-ajax widget manage and edit  interface, even when the yui plugin is installed, for acessibility reasons. There should also be javascripts detection to prevent to get to the widget manage interface if javascript is not available. But even if javascript is available, there should be a link to non-ajax "Add Widget" interface. 

[Sorry about all the "shoulds", but I'm sure you'll take it as intended:  suggestions ]

Quick update: I change line 29 of mod/files/lib.php to   if($latest_files = widget_get_data("latest_files",$widget->ident)){} else {$latest_files = 0;}, otherwise I get an unrecoverable mysql error if I forget to edit the file widget and later go to my profile.

update 12h29, Brazilian time: And yet another suggestion: an option for widget to be "full width", since some "badges" or internet widgets do not fit into a column. For instance, the Google Calendar widget would hardly fit into a narrow column. Also, the blog-widget could do with a full-width. (I should explain, I just ripped out the input validation code again, so that I can use arbitrary tags, for example <script> tags in my text widgets, so that I can use any "Web2.0" widgets I want).

so i'm having a nightmare bug and can't figure out what to do - just a blank screen issue (the registration actually works) - full details with lines/errors at:

Deleting users redirect to the wrong URL:

units/users/userdetails_actions.php line 31:

header("Location: {$CFG->wwwroot}/devel/_userdetails/");
 

the /devel/ is the problem, just remove it

 

Hi,

is it planned to have more types of access restrictions to personal data?  At the moment I see access restrictions like "public", "logged in users", "private" and "communities". What I miss is: make this data visible to my friends (aknowledged) or to dedicated friends/contacts. I guess that some users are having concerns about giving away data when they know that every (logged in) member of the site/community can access it.

Is there any workaround to implement data access for friends?

Thanks for your help.

Cheers!

/bahne