Learn to use the CTools suite
Submitted by merlinofchaos on July 9, 2009 - 00:03
Your session in a few words:
Learn to use CTools to improve your applications
Date:
September 4, 2009 - 09:00 - 09:45
Room:
Adenauer
Track:
Code it, test it, deploy it
Session Type:
Lecture
Level of expertise:
Advanced
Language:
English The Chaos Tools Suite, known as CTools, is kind of a extra core API library. It includes a number of tools to greatly ease certain functionality. In this lecture, merlinofchaos will describe how to do the following tasks:
- Create a multi-step form using the form wizard tool
- Create advanced ajax forms using the ajax tool
- Create more advanced ajax forms using the modal tool
- Make your objects exportable like Views
- Use collapsible divs that look nicer than collapsible fieldsets
- Use CSS caching and sanitization
- Let your module use plugins to allow more expansion
