Elgg 1.8.3

Create your own social network, quickly and easily. Elgg allows you to take full advantage of the power of social technology with elegant, flexible solutions for organisations, groups and individuals.

Building on Elgg is easy, and because the engine handles common web application and social functionality for you, you can concentrate on developing your idea.

Elgg runs on PHP, Apache, and MySQL - the same open source platform that the majority of web applications are written in. Elgg is also compatible with enterprise technologies like the Zend Platform and any server environment capable of running the Apache

Elgg supports technologies like OpenDD, OpenID and OpenSocial and is a great way to future-proof your social applications.

Here are some key features of "Elgg":

Elgg supports:
· User, object, file and site management
· Social graph functionality (relationships between users and other users, objects and sites)
· Multiple sites (or applications) per installation
· Easy internationalisation support
· System-wide, tag-based searching across all content and users
· Fine-grained access controls
· Multiple views, allowing for mobile applications and embeddable widgets as well as the traditional web browser view
· Event, plugin and widget APIs

Technical, back-end features:
· RSS, FOAF, XFN for content syndication
· OpenID, OpenSocial, OAuth for integration with other web services
· Open Data Definition and an increasing number of data portability formats for import / export
· An extensible RESTful API, with results in JSON, serialised PHP or XML
· AJAX through jQuery and user-definable callbacks
· Easy extension for use with caching systems such as memcached, for increased system performance
· Use of multiple database connections for scalability

End-user features:
· Profile
· Dashboard
· Activity feed
· User preferences
· Comprehensive administration tools
· OpenSocial applications
· Blogging
· File repository
· Forums
· Social bookmarking

Requirements:

· PHP 5.2+ as an Apache mod with GD extensions
· MySQL 5 or later
· Apache web server with mod_rewrite installed