I am using 1.8.3 to host a community site for the north east indian engineering students. I want to manipulate the core of elgg with help from some programmers. I like the basics of elgg and i want to add more custom plugins unavailable to anyone. In short, i want to own it for a professional site. Is it legal? Has anyone ever tried? Is it safe from security vulnerabilities from the elgg side?
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- Team Webgalli@webgalli
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- It breaks upgrade paths - you will lose your customizations if you attempt to upgrade your elgg version
- Subtle nuances that you may not be aware of can ripple through the system - elgg uses a *very* normalized database structure so if you create/delete something out of place it can be hard to track down
- If something does break in a customized system noone in the community can provide any decent help
- It's very rarely necessary - pretty much anything you want to do can be achieved in a plugin while leaving the code base intact
- DhrupDeScoop@Dhrup2000
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You must log in to post replies.Elgg s released under GPL Licence and you can use Elgg for anything. All you have to obey is the domain policy available @ http://elgg.org/about.php
If you write the plugins properly as per the guidelines, there is nothing to worry about it. If you like to release it to community,you can do that.
Thank you for the information webgalli. But i didnt get you when you said something about writing plugins as per guidelines.
Can't i use my individual innovations?
@Newbie - be as innovative as you like! What Webgalli is saying, is to read through the documentation on plugins first, it'll make your experience a whole lot better. Also, you are absolutely free to modify the core engine if you want, but it's not recommended for a number of reasons:
north east ? kolkata ? উত্তর পূর্ব? আপনার কলকাতা? ? which college ? my elgg-friend from kolkta is at college in chennai for comp sci...;-)