How to Display Profile Visitors in Elgg 1.8

Last Updated on Tuesday, 6 November 2012 08:30 Written by Rodolfo Hernandez Wednesday, 7 November 2012 12:00

For security and private reasons, most of the people want to know who visited their profile and for that reason, in this article I will give a step by step guide on how to display profile visitors to your users in elgg 1.8

1. To display profile visitors, we will use a tool called Izap Profile Visitors for elgg 1.8 You can download it here

2. After downloading the plugin, upload the plugin to the mod folder of your Elgg network to install it. If you don’t know how to do that, please read this article.

How to Install a Language Pack in Elgg 1.8

Last Updated on Tuesday, 23 October 2012 03:40 Written by Rodolfo Hernandez Tuesday, 23 October 2012 12:00

Using another display language for your elgg network can be a little bit difficult to do. Sometimes you can make a mistake that can break your site. For that reason in this article I will give a step by step guide on how to install a language pack in elgg 1.8

1. For the purpose of this guide, I will use the Spanish Language pack from the Elgg Community. You can find it here if you want to use it

2. After downloading the language pack, upload it to the main folder of your elgg network

3. Once the language pack is uploaded, extract it:

How to Loop Through an Array in Clip-Bucket with {section}{/section}

Last Updated on Wednesday, 19 September 2012 07:18 Written by Richi González Thursday, 27 September 2012 12:00

Hello,

When you dynamically need to output records from a database inside your Clip-Bucket, by this moment, you may have noticed that Clip-Bucket is powered by Smarty template engine, therefore, you cannot use a while() loop, for example, like you would normally do in native PHP. In this article we will review the use of {section}{/section} to loop through a MySQL records array.

Difficulty level: Medium (if you know how to use loops in PHP, you’ll find it easier)

1. Create the query to retrieve records from your database (in this example I’ll use queries for MySQL, but you can use any database)

Silverlight: How to Display the Video from Webcams

Last Updated on Sunday, 2 September 2012 02:33 Written by Andrew Ivanov Thursday, 13 September 2012 12:00

In Silverlight, you can access the video and audio feeds from media devices such as webcams and TV tuners. This enables a number of scenarios, such as capturing and displaying images, uploading profile pictures to social networking applications, video diaries, audio diaries, audio note taking, augmented reality, and body gestures.

To set up a webcam in your Silverlight application, the first thing you need to do is get the available AudioCaptureDevices and VideoCaptureDevices on the system. CaptureDeviceConfiguration exposes a number of static members for getting all the available devices as well as getting the default devices. Once you have the device, you can associate it with a CaptureSource.

How to Change the System Language of Your Site in Elgg 1.8

Last Updated on Thursday, 3 May 2012 07:22 Written by Rodolfo Hernandez Saturday, 5 May 2012 12:00

In this quick article, I will give a step by step guide on how to change the system language of your site in Elgg 1.8. Sign in as an Administrator and follow these steps:

1. Go to the Administration Dashboard