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[Framework](/categories/framework) 4. / 5. elgg/elgg ActiveProject[Framework](/categories/framework) elgg/elgg ========= Elgg is an award-winning social networking engine, delivering the building blocks that enable businesses, schools, universities and associations to create their own fully-featured social networks and applications. 6.3.4(1mo ago)1.7k15.7k666[37 issues](https://github.com/Elgg/Elgg/issues)[1 PRs](https://github.com/Elgg/Elgg/pulls)4GPL-2.0-onlyPHPPHP >=8.1CI passing Since May 25Pushed 1mo ago112 watchersCompare [ Source](https://github.com/Elgg/Elgg)[ Packagist](https://packagist.org/packages/elgg/elgg)[ RSS](/packages/elgg-elgg/feed)WikiDiscussions 7.x Synced 1mo ago READMEChangelog (10)Dependencies (90)Versions (255)Used By (4)Security (5) Elgg ==== [](#elgg) [![PHPUnit test suites](https://github.com/Elgg/Elgg/actions/workflows/phpunit.yml/badge.svg?branch=6.3)](https://github.com/Elgg/Elgg/actions/workflows/phpunit.yml)[![Read the docs build status](https://camo.githubusercontent.com/c9b9ce2f28a325825c0a554aca168eb8a7adb54eb98e674f70dc1e9ecced1505/68747470733a2f2f72656164746865646f63732e6f72672f70726f6a656374732f656c67672f62616467652f3f62616467653d362e33)](http://learn.elgg.org/en/6.3/) Elgg is an open source rapid development framework for socially aware web applications. Features -------- [](#features) - **Well-documented core API** that allows developers to kick-start their new project with a simple learning curve - **Composer** is the package manager of choice that greatly simplifies installation and maintenance of Elgg core and plugins - **Flexible system of events** that allows plugins to extend and modify most aspects of application's functionality and behavior - **Extendable system of views** that allows plugins to collaborate on application's presentation layer and built out complex custom themes - **Cacheable system of static assets** that allows themes and plugins to serve images, stylesheets, fonts and scripts bypassing the engine - **User authentication** is powered by pluggable auth modules, which allow applications to implement custom authentication protocols - **Security** is ensured by built-in anti CSRF validation, strict XSS filters, HMAC signatures, latest cryptographic approaches to password hashing - **Client-side API** powered by asynchronous ES modules and a built-in Ajax service for easy communication with the server - **Flexible entity system** that allows applications to prototype new types of content and user interactions - **Opinionated data model** with a consolidated API layer that allows the developers to easily interface with the database - **Access control system** that allows applications to build granular content access policies, as well as create private networks and intranets - **Groups** - out of the box support for user groups - **File storage** powered by flexible API that allows plugins to store user-generated files and serve/stream them without booting the engine - **Notifications service** that allows applications to subscribe users to on-site and email notifications and implement integrations with other their-party services - **RPC web services** that can be used for complex integrations with external applications and mobile clients - **Internationalization** and localization of Elgg applications is simple and can be integrated with third-party services such as Transifex - **Elgg community** that can help with any arising issues and hosts a repository of **1000+ open source plugins** Under the hood: - Elgg is a modular OOP framework that is driven by DI services - NGINX or Apache compatible - Symfony2 HTTP Foundation handles requests and responses - modular javascript with ECMAScript modules - Symfony Mailer handles outgoing email - htmLawed XSS filters - DBAL - Phinx database migrations - Imagine for image manipulation - Error handling with Monolog Elgg Foundation --------------- [](#elgg-foundation) Elgg is managed by the Elgg Foundation, a nonprofit organization that was founded to govern, protect, and promote the Elgg open source social network engine. The Foundation aims to provide a stable, commercially and individually independent organization that operates in the best interest of Elgg as an open source project. The Elgg project was started in 2004 by - Ben Werdmuller (, ) - Dave Tosh (). License ------- [](#license) Copyright (c) 2008-2025, see COPYRIGHT.txt Elgg is released under the GNU General Public License (GPL) Version 2 and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT-X11) License. See LICENSE.txt in the root of the package you downloaded. Installation ------------ [](#installation) For installation instructions, see . For upgrade instructions, see . Support ------- [](#support) The project site can be found at . Visit for more information about Elgg. Contributors ------------ [](#contributors) For development credits, see CONTRIBUTORS.txt. ### Health Score 73 — ExcellentBetter than 100% of packages Maintenance89 Actively maintained with recent releases Popularity54 Moderate usage in the ecosystem Community49 Growing community involvement Maturity91 Battle-tested with a long release history Bus Factor3 3 contributors hold 50%+ of commits How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window. **Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores. **Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement. **Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability. ### Release Activity Cadence Every ~17 days Total 254 Last Release 49d ago Major Versions 5.1.10 → 6.0.52024-10-09 5.1.11 → 6.0.62024-10-25 5.1.12 → 6.0.72024-11-20 5.1.x-dev → 6.1.32025-02-13 6.3.x-dev → 7.x-dev2026-03-30 PHP version history (11 changes)1.9.5PHP >=5.2 1.10.0-rc.1PHP ~5.4 2.0.0-alpha.1PHP >=5.5 2.3.0-rc.1PHP >=5.6 3.0.0-beta.1PHP >=7.0 3.1.0PHP >=7.1 3.3.0PHP >=7.2 4.0.0-beta.1PHP >=7.4 5.0.0-beta.1PHP >=8.0 6.0.0-beta.1PHP >=8.1 7.x-devPHP >=8.3 ### Community Maintainers ![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/4357d0114cd9ba86cc21f1d95eb7999a1bf5823a8f75903e186a273c25aa5f28?d=identicon)[brettp](/maintainers/brettp) ![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/188221fa5ea70dd4d13af1d9b839cdaba0cfc56e68bfcb1bde115cc5cea06b17?d=identicon)[ewinslow](/maintainers/ewinslow) 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