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Creating a custom page to manipulate data on elgg

I'm new to Elgg development. Until now I've just customized the appearance. But now I want new entities to interact, one of it is "Organization" and other is "Product". And for those entities I have to create a page to register new organization, update and delete it. The same for "Product" entity.

Is it possible to do? Is there a way to create a page (accessing only if the user have permission to) and manipulate the entity data? Does anybody has a sample?

Solution

  • I'd recommend checking out a few Elgg's tutorials:

    http://docs.elgg.org/wiki/Tutorials

    This one in particular:

    http://docs.elgg.org/wiki/Tutorials/Blog

    You can follow that verbatim, but instead of creating 'blog' objects, create your 'product' objects, ie:

    ...
$product = new ElggObject();
$product->subtype = "product";
$product->title = $title;
$product->description = $body;
...