Controlling the Chaos

Logistics
Day: 
Saturday
Room: 
Auditorium
Time: 
Jan 8 2011 - 9:00am
The Chaos Tools suite is one of the most intimidating, yet useful modules in the drupal suite. Also known as ctools this group of modules provides several APIs and tools to "improve the developer experience" This talk will be an introduction to what it can do and how you can use it. This talk won't cover all of the tools available, but will try to cover some of the more useful ones. Some that will probably be discussed are: Exportables -- tools to make it easier for modules to have objects that live in database or live in code, such as 'default views'. AJAX responder -- tools to make it easier for the server to handle AJAX requests and tell the client what to do with them. Form tools -- tools to make it easier for forms to deal with AJAX. Form wizard -- an API to make multi-step forms much easier. Plugins -- tools to make it easy for modules to let other modules implement plugins from .inc files.
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Thu, 2011-02-10 17:34 — mdorrell

I finally got my session

I finally got my session posted. You can link to it here: http://www.slideshare.net/Digithoughts/ctools-presentation
Sun, 2011-01-09 14:57 — mdorrell

Hey thanks, I'm glad you like

Hey thanks, I'm glad you like it. I can't upload the presentation here because the limit is 1Mb, and my huge presentation is like 6Mb. We should be able to post it up on the Digitaria website somewhere. I'll talk to my boss on Monday, so check back here Tuesday maybe. In the meantime, here are my references, they should help you out alot. Exportables: - http://drupal.org/node/928026 Ajax Responder: - http://zroger.com/node/30 Multistep forms: - http://www.nicklewis.org/using-chaos-tools-form-wizard-build-multistep-f... Modal dialog - http://zroger.com/node/31
Sat, 2011-01-08 18:23 — cdrottar

Don't know if i am being over

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Don't know if i am being over eager - but this session was great and information packed - if you could post the session slides here when you get a chance or suggest a way to get my hands on them that would be greatly appreciated.