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Elgg 1.8 social networking /
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Autor principal: | |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
| Publicado: |
Birmingham, UK :
Packt Pub.,
2012.
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| Edición: | 2nd ed. |
| Colección: | Community experience distilled.
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| Temas: | |
| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo (Requiere registro previo con correo institucional) |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Social Networking and Elgg
- Social features
- Profiles
- Relationships
- Content sharing
- Activity and notifications
- Groups
- Communication
- What is Elgg?
- The Elgg engine
- User management
- Privacy controls
- Theming
- Commenting
- Tagging
- Widgets
- Internationalization
- Feeds
- Web services
- The power of plugins
- Bundled plugins
- Third-party plugins
- Themes
- Building your own plugins
- Case studies
- Niche social network
- Designing and building the site
- Deploying the site
- Plugins mentioned
- Corporate intranet
- Designing and building the site
- Deploying the site
- Plugins mentioned
- Educational collaboration
- Designing and building the site
- Deploying the site
- Plugins mentioned
- Elgg resources
- Elgg community
- Elgg wiki
- Developer resources
- A few words of advice
- Take notes
- Save resources
- Be methodical
- Finding help
- Summary
- ch. 2 Installing Elgg
- Note continued: Preparing the server
- Checking requirements
- Downloading the latest version
- Extracting the files
- Moving files to your web server directory
- Configuring the server
- Create the database
- Run Elgg's installer
- Loading the database
- Configure Elgg
- Creating the admin account
- All done!
- Summary
- ch. 3 A Tour of Your First Elgg Site
- Getting around
- Registering users
- User profiles and avatars
- Profile information
- Avatar
- Profile widgets
- Friends
- Activity stream
- Tools
- Blogs
- Bookmarks
- Files
- Groups
- Pages
- Messages
- The wire
- User settings
- Your settings
- Tools
- Notifications
- Administration
- Activating plugins
- Site categories
- Custom profile fields
- Default widgets
- Site pages
- Reported content
- Customizing your site
- User registration and authentication
- Widgets
- Friendship model
- Roles
- Help and support
- Summary
- ch. 4 Sharing Content
- Blogs
- Note continued: Creating a blog post
- Embedding photos and files
- Publishing
- Finding and viewing
- Search
- Lists of blog posts
- RSS feeds
- Widget
- Commenting
- Use cases
- Customizations
- Bookmarks
- Adding a bookmark
- Bookmarklet
- Viewing
- Use cases
- File
- Uploading a file
- Viewing
- Use cases
- Customizations
- The wire
- Posting
- Viewing
- Twitter integration
- Use cases
- Customizations
- Summary
- ch. 5 Communities, Collaboration, and Conversation
- Groups
- Creating a group
- Group profile
- Membership
- Discussion forum
- Group tools
- Finding groups
- Use cases
- Customizations
- Pages
- Creating pages
- Viewing
- Use cases
- Customizations
- Messages
- Inbox
- Composing
- Customizations
- Message board
- Customizations
- Summary
- ch. 6 Finding and Using Plugins
- Plugin administration
- Filtering and sorting
- Plugin dependencies
- Plugin settings
- Finding plugins
- Note continued: Browsing the repository
- Searching
- Evaluating before downloading
- Look at the plugin overview
- Read the comments
- Check the history
- Custom plugins
- Installing plugins
- Test server
- Copying the code
- Activating and configuring
- Invalid plugin?
- Troubleshooting
- Themes
- Finding and installing themes
- Free themes
- Commercial themes
- Custom themes
- Installing themes
- Major community plugins
- Tidypics
- Plugin profile
- Administration
- Uploading photos
- Viewing photos
- Tagging photos
- Event calendar
- Plugin profile
- Administration
- Site calendar
- Group calendar
- Profile Manager
- Plugin profile
- Adding profile fields
- Configuring the profile fields
- Plugin settings
- Summary
- ch. 7 Creating Your First Plugin
- What you need to know
- Elgg developer resources
- Setting up your development environment
- Editing code
- Configuring your site
- Hello, World!
- Plugin skeleton
- Note continued: Create your plugin directory
- Plugin manifest
- Start script
- Activating the hello world plugin
- Register for the init, system event
- Adding a new route
- Creating a web page
- Update routing
- Add to the site menu
- Extending the page handler
- Add a sidebar menu
- Language support
- Personalizing the content
- Organizing your content into views
- A greeting view
- A stats view
- Review
- Debugging
- Debugging to the log
- Debugging to the screen
- Debugging PHP through an IDE
- Firebug and other browser development tools
- Elgg developer tools
- Inspect
- Theming sandbox
- Summary
- ch. 8 Customization through Plugins
- Lesson 1 Changing wording
- Problem
- Solution
- Example
- Step 1 Create the plugin structure
- Step 2 Find the language strings
- Step 3 Override the language string
- Exercise
- Lesson 2 Modifying a section of a page
- Problem
- Solution
- Example
- Step 1 Find the view to override
- Note continued: Step 2 Create the plugin structure
- Step 3 Edit the logo view
- Step 4 Style the header
- Exercise
- Lesson 3 Adding new content to a page
- Problem
- Solution
- Example
- Step 1 Find the view to extend
- Step 2 Create the plugin structure
- Step 3 Build our view
- Step 4 Make the tips random
- Exercise
- Lesson 4 Doing something when X happens
- Problem
- Solution
- Example
- Step 1 Find the event
- Step 2 Create the plugin structure
- Step 3 Write the function that sends the e-mail
- Exercise
- Lesson 5 Creating a custom widget
- Problem
- Solution
- Example
- Step 1 Create the plugin structure
- Step 2 Create the widget edit view
- Step 3 Create the widget content view
- Exercise
- Lesson 6 Giving your users options
- Problem
- Solution
- Example
- Step 1 Create the plugin structure
- Step 2 Add user settings
- Step 3 Create the toolbar view
- Step 4 Add CSS
- Exercise
- Lesson 7 Adding JavaScript
- Problem
- Note continued: Solution
- Example
- Step 1 Create the plugin structure
- Step 2 Load the JavaScript file
- Step 3 Add CSS and JavaScript initialization
- Exercise
- Lesson 8 Changing how Elgg does X
- Problem
- Solution
- Example
- Step 1 Create the plugin structure
- Step 2 Create the index page
- Step 3 Define the views
- Step 4 Add the CSS
- Step 5 Add a plugin setting
- Exercise
- Lesson 9 Collecting and storing data
- Problem
- Solution
- Example
- Overview
- Step 1 Create the plugin structure
- Step 2 Create the main help page
- Step 3 Create the categories
- Step 4 Add an administration page
- Step 5 Create the form body
- Step 6 Create the save action
- Step 7 Create the help category page
- Step 8 Create the help object view
- Step 9 Add the help sidebar
- Step 10 Add CSS for the topic listing page
- Step 11 Finish the main help page
- Exercise
- Summary
- ch. 9 Theming Elgg
- What you need to know
- Theming basics
- Note continued: Elgg's default theme
- HTML
- CSS
- JavaScript
- Graphics
- Views system
- What is a view?
- Extending a view
- Overriding a view
- Template language
- Caching
- The viewtype
- Tools
- CSS framework
- Creating abstractions of common visual patterns
- Customizing objects through extension classes
- Adding external JavaScript and CSS
- Menu system
- Registering a menu item
- Rendering a menu
- Comparing theming in WordPress to Elgg
- Building a theme
- Plugin structure
- Layout
- Default layout
- Page header
- Page body layout
- Page footer
- Moving the search box
- Styling the sidebar module
- Moving the site menu to the topbar
- Creating a mobile theme
- Plugin structure
- Layout
- CSS
- Summary
- ch. 10 Moving to Production
- Selecting a server
- Performance considerations
- Competing for resources
- Usage patterns
- General guidelines for server selection
- Hosting options
- Shared hosting
- Note continued: Virtual Private Server
- Dedicated server
- Cloud hosting
- Hosting company selection
- Configuring a server
- Apache
- PHP
- MySQL
- Cron
- Managing the site
- Backup
- Code
- Database
- Files
- Server configuration
- Restoring
- Log rotation
- Spam
- Registration
- Detecting spammers
- Web analytics
- Daily tasks
- Monitoring user registration
- Reviewing reported content
- Responding to feedback
- Community management
- Testing, upgrading, and moving a site
- Testing
- Mirroring the production site
- Test plan
- Upgrading
- Moving a site
- Performance
- Benchmarking
- Monitoring and data collection
- Stress testing
- Easy performance gains
- Advanced performance tuning and scaling
- Caching
- Multiple servers
- Resources
- Reporting bugs
- Steps to reproduce the problem
- Elgg or plugin?
- Reporting the bug
- Summary
- Appendix A Developer's Quick Start Guide
- Overview of Elgg as a framework
- Note continued: What is Elgg?
- Object-oriented or procedural?
- Does it use the Model-View-Controller pattern?
- Convention or configuration?
- Is it extensible?
- What template engine is used?
- A Model-View-Controller perspective of Elgg
- Overview
- Controllers
- Model
- Views
- Routing
- Code location
- Actions
- Code location
- Page handlers
- Code location
- Framework booting
- Code location
- Data model
- Entities
- Type and subtype
- GUID
- Owner
- Container
- Access
- Database
- Relationships
- Extenders
- Database
- Retrieval functions
- Code location
- Views
- View templates
- Page shells and layout
- View type
- Overriding and extending views
- Special views
- Code location
- Events and hooks
- Elgg events
- Plugin hooks
- Code location
- Plugins
- Initialization
- Plugin order
- Conventions
- Themes
- Code location
- Activity stream
- Code location
- Notifications
- Code location
- Note continued: Internationalization and localization
- Code location
- Lightning round
- Authentication
- Caching
- Configuration
- Debugging and logging
- JavaScript
- Menus
- Private settings
- Search
- Security
- Session handling
- Unit tests
- Web services
- Widgets
- Summary
- Appendix B Views Catalog
- Using views
- Page structure
- Shells
- Layouts
- Elements
- Topbar
- Header
- Sidebar
- Footer
- Owner block
- Status messages
- Comments
- Search box
- Components
- Gallery
- Image block
- List
- Module
- Navigation
- Breadcrumbs
- Pagination
- Menus
- Topbar menu
- Site menu
- Page menu
- Footer menu
- User hover menu
- Entity menu
- Tabs
- Forms
- Input
- Access
- Buttons
- Checkboxes
- Date
- Drop-down selector
- File upload
- Hidden input
- Large textarea
- Password
- Radio buttons
- Textbox
- User pickers
- Output
- Date
- E-mail address
- Link
- Tag cloud
- Tags
- Text
- The form
- Note continued: Users, groups, and objects
- Activity stream
- Likes
- Like this
- List users
- Widgets
- Administration
- Summary.