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Panels 3: The Power of Chaos Magic

Matt Cheney November 14th, 2009 Drupalcamp Austin 2009

Panels is our Best Hope

• Marshall Content
• Drag & Drop Layout
• Configurable in the UI
• Views 2 + CCK Integration
• Killer API
• Exportable Elements

“what do you want in your CMS?”

A Little History....

Panels 1 (5.x)

A Little History....

Panels 2 (5.x) Panels 2 (6.x) the long road...

A Little History....

panels 3.0 released 9.19.09

What Does it Do?

What Does it Do?

The Panels Paradigm

No Blocks Every Page is a Panel

A Tour of the Amazing

Node Overrides + CCK

• Allows Panels to Power the Node

Display

• Harness the Power of CCK

(and why this rocks in CCK 3)

Node Overrides + CCK

showcase

Views 2 Integration

Views 2 Integration

showcase

Styles + skinr.module

panels-pane.tpl.php

status: http://drupal.org/node/583172 (now in Panels 3.2!)

Variables available: * - $pane->type: the content type inside this pane * - $pane->subtype: The subtype, if applicable. * - $title: The title of the content * - $content: The actual content * - $links: Any links associated with the content * - $more: An optional 'more' link (destination only) * - $admin_links: Administrative links * - $feeds: Any feed associated with the content * - $display: The complete panels display object Why This Matters? <div class="panel-pane panel-pane-<?php print $pane->type; ?>">

• r for the really cool kids...

<div class=”panel-pane panel-position-<?php print $pane->position;?> panel-region-<?php print $pane->panel;?> panel-region-<?php print $pane->did;?>-<?php print $pane- >panel;?> panel-type-<?php print $pane->type;?> panel-display-<?php print $pane- >did;?> panel-pane-<?php print $pane->pid; ?>">

Caching + Performance

If we are anonymous, we don’t (usually) care.... If we are logged in, we pay about 5%... (but we get pane caching for free)

Panels, Ctools, Features

http://drupal.org/node/532256

panels_scheduler.module

• Add Date Field to Panel

Node Content Type

• Create Custom Callback to

Find Current Page

• return node_view($node)!

status: http://drupal.org/project/panels_scheduler

panels_scheduler.module

enter the demo

• g_panels.module
• OG + Panels = Great
• A model for how to

have users manage groups

status: http://drupal.org/project/og_panels

• g_panels.module

enter the demo

total_control.module

• Views 2 + Panels 3

= Admin 5000

• Flexible +

Customizable

• The Content

Admin Solution

status: http://drupal.org/project/total_control

total_control.module

enter the demo

Panels and Chaos Tools

Chaos Tools Panels

a shared suite of APIs and tools to allow for wizardly development a system of layout and pane control to create your website drupal.org/project/ctools drupal.org/project/panels

The Panels/CTools API

/** * Implementation of hook_ctools_plugin_directory() to let * the system know we implement task and task_handler plugins. */ function module_name_ctools_plugin_directory($module, $plugin) { return 'plugins/' . $plugin; }

module/plugins/content_types/ module/plugins/layouts/ module/plugins/contexts/ module/plugins/arguments/ module/plugins/tasks/

Extending Panels: Layouts

hook_panels_layouts()

A recipe for a custom panel layout... layout_name.css + layout_name.inc + layout_name.tpl.php + layout_name.png

Extending Panels: Layouts

enter the code

Extending Panels: Panes

hook_ctools_content_types()

A recipe for a custom panel pane... module_custompane_ctools_content_types() + module_custompane_content_type_render() + module_custompane_content_type_edit_form() + module_custompane_content_type_edit_form_submit() more information in the ctools_plugin_example module

Extending Panels: Panes

enter the code

Content Creation in Panels

• Panels “Content Types”:

Not Just for CCK!

• Create Content:

Images/Feeds/Embeds

status: http://drupal.org/node/451928

Content Creation in Panels

enter the demo

The Future Is Now

released