Users, groups, and objects
Appendix A, Developer's Quick Start Guide, discusses how users, groups, and objects (blogs, bookmarks, and files) are all entities in Elgg's data model. When rendering an entity, it can be done as a summary or as a full representation of the entity. The summary is used when listing several entities as in the list of blogs as shown in the following screenshot:
The summary uses the image block component described earlier. On the right is the entity menu that was mentioned in the menu section of this appendix. This menu has important information about the entity (such as its access level) and links for acting on the entity ...
Get Elgg 1.8 Social Networking now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.
