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- CONTENTS OF THIS FILE
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- * Introduction
- * Requirements
- * Recommended Modules
- * Installation
- * Configuration
- INTRODUCTION
- ------------
- The Chaos tool suite (ctools) module is primarily a set of APIs and tools to
- improve the developer experience. It also contains a module called the Page
- Manager whose job is to manage pages. In particular it manages panel pages, but
- as it grows it will be able to manage far more than just Panels.
- The Chaos Tool Suite (ctools) is a series of tools that makes code readily
- available for developers and creates libraries for other modules to use. Modules
- that use ctools include Views and Panels.
- End users will use ctools as underlying user interface libraries when operating
- Views and Panels modules and will not need to explore further (ctools is geared
- more toward developer usage). Developers will use the module differently and
- work more with the tools provided.
- For the moment, it includes the following tools:
- * Plugins -- tools to make it easy for modules to let other modules implement
- plugins from .inc files.
- * 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.
- * Object caching -- tool to make it easier to edit an object across multiple
- page requests and cache the editing work.
- * Contexts -- the notion of wrapping objects in a unified wrapper and providing
- an API to create and accept these contexts as input.
- * Modal dialog -- tool to make it simple to put a form in a modal dialog.
- * Dependent -- a simple form widget to make form items appear and disappear
- based upon the selections in another item.
- * Content -- pluggable content types used as panes in Panels and other modules
- like Dashboard.
- * Form wizard -- an API to make multi-step forms much easier.
- * CSS tools -- tools to cache and sanitize CSS easily to make user-input CSS
- safe.
- * For a full description of the module visit:
- https://www.drupal.org/project/ctools
- * To submit bug reports and feature suggestions, or to track changes visit:
- https://www.drupal.org/project/issues/ctools
- REQUIREMENTS
- ------------
- This module requires no modules outside of Drupal core.
- RECOMMENDED MODULES
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- The Advanced help module provides extended documentation. Once enabled,
- navigate to Administration > Advanced Help and select the Chaos tools link to
- view documentation.
- * Advanced help - https://www.drupal.org/project/advanced_help
- INSTALLATION
- ------------
- * Install the Chaos tool suite module as you would normally install a
- contributed Drupal module. Visit https://www.drupal.org/node/895232 for
- further information.
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