After a long time without activity and no news today we are back to continue with our projects and work and to restart things in the best way in this year, bring progress on Common Utilities for XOOPS.

Originally Common Utilities was a collection of classes and functions to enhance the development of modules of Red México, some of you probably remember in their first versions, there by XOOPS 2.0.10.

Now, we have transformed Common Utilities in a module, in addition to having the classes’ collection and functions that facilitate the development of modules, can replace and improve some XOOPS functions, besides bringing new potential in the design of themes, for both the GUI and for the design of the site.

In addition, for developers and designers, Common Utilities offer powerful capabilities to create innovative and powerful designs, to the level of the best systems, module programming simpler and better structured, and capabilities to create plugins for virtually all modules developed with Common Utilities.

Common utilities include three new text editors: Tiny, EXM Editor and HTML Editor. The three new editors are fully integrated with Common Utilities and provide new possibilities for editing text and adding new features by modules or installed components.

For the moment we have ready the images administrator, the themes management for the XOOPS panel control and the default theme for Common Utilities however the plans are to improve the module management, blocks, etc.

Those interested in reviewing progress can visit the project development site and to get a copy of the files directly from the repository. To see all the functionality of the module it is necessary to install the theme “redmexico” from the XOOPS control panel since it activates all visual functionality of Common Utilities.

Link:
Project Repository