Customizing the Home Page

Overwrite the default index page on your Elgg install.

start.php

Register a function for the plugin hook called index, system that returns true. This tells Elgg to assume that another front page has been drawn so it doesn’t display the default page.

Inside start.php you will need something like the following:

<?php

function pluginname_init() {
    // Replace the default index page
    elgg_register_plugin_hook_handler('index', 'system', 'new_index');
}

function new_index() {
    return !include_once(dirname(__FILE__) . "/pages/index.php");
}

// register for the init, system event when our plugin start.php is loaded
elgg_register_event_handler('init', 'system', 'pluginname_init');

pages/index.php

Then implement the page handler script (/pluginname/pages/index.php) to generate the desired output. Anything output from this script will become your new home page.