Elgg 1.8 Social Networking

Framework booting

At the top of the primary handlers, there is the following line:

require_once(dirname(dirname(__FILE__)) . "/start.php");

This loads the Elgg framework, which includes the following:

• Loading the core libraries
• Connecting to the database
• Loading Elgg's configuration
• Loading plugins
• Loading language files
• Initializing the user's session
• Registering handlers and callbacks

When the boot process is completed, control is returned to the handler. Elgg's routing and page handling system handle booting the framework before a plugin is called.

Code location

Boot script: /engine/start.php