Plugin skeleton

This tutorial explains how to easily create the skeleton for a plugin. The tutorial assumes you are working within the elgg directory structure on your local machine and that you will ftp the code to your remote server later on. You could create the plugin anywhere you want as long as you ftp it to the correct location on your server.

Create the plugin directory

Plugins are always placed in the /mod directory. Create a subdirectory there and give it the name of your plugin. This is what will show up in the Tools Administration section of Elgg.

Create the plugin's start.php file

In /mod/<your plugin name>, create an empty file called start.php. If this file exists, Elgg will load your plugin. Otherwise, you will see a misconfigured plugin error when you enable it.

Create the plugin manifest file

See Manifests. The manifest file describes who wrote the plugin, what it does, what version it is, and under what license it was released.

That's it!