Elgg

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 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 
- Symfony Mailer handles outgoing email
- htmLawed XSS filters
- DBAL
- Phinx database migrations
- Imagine for image manipulation
- 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 (<ben@benwerd.com>, <http://benwerd.com>)
 - Dave Tosh (<https://twitter.com/davetosh>).

License
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Copyright (c) 2008-2026, 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 https://elgg.org/.

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

Contributors
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For development credits, see CONTRIBUTORS.txt.