http://paris2009.drupalcon.org/taxonomy/term/244/0 en http://paris2009.drupalcon.org/session/howto-creating-ctools-plugins-panels-and-related-modules <p>The <a href="http://drupal.org/project/panels">Panels</a> module and more recently the <a href="http://drupal.org/project/ctools">Chaos Tools</a> (Ctools) toolset open up enormous power in using small plugins to accomplish user interface wonders. But it's been a bit of a black art knowing what you can do with a plugin and how to do it. But with a little bit of introduction and some sample code it's not too hard.</p> <p>We'll cover:</p> <ul> <li>A quick introduction to plugins and where and how they're used </li><li>The types of plugins: content types, arguments, contexts, access control and more<br /> </li></ul><div class="field field-type-text field-field-bio-booklet"> <div class="field-label">Speaker bio:&nbsp;</div> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> Randy Fay does Drupal development from Grand Junction, Colorado, USA, and has enjoyed many a session with the powerful little plugins for Panels (and now Ctools) </div> </div> </div> <p><a href="http://paris2009.drupalcon.org/session/howto-creating-ctools-plugins-panels-and-related-modules" target="_blank">read more</a></p> http://paris2009.drupalcon.org/session/howto-creating-ctools-plugins-panels-and-related-modules#comments ctools panels Thu, 09 Jul 2009 05:16:15 +0000 rfay 1277 at http://paris2009.drupalcon.org