The Infusion UI Options module

Last week was the first official week of coding for the GSOC. I've started writing code for the module and have written the module's help page using Drupal's hook_help() function which will probably be modified as I work on the module. I have also started working on the module's config page where the administrator can choose which version of the UIO will be displayed. The three options for this are 'Fat Panel UIO' which is the default, 'Full Page', and 'Full Page with Preview'. I've also added a setting for customizing the text for the "Show/Hide" button of the Fat Panel UIO. So far, the form for this configuration page is working properly and these settings are being saved but that's all they're doing right now.

This week, I plan to work on registering the necessary library files with the Libraries API. The Fluid Infusion Builder lets you download a package that contains all the necessary files including third party libraries that are needed for the Infusion UI Options to work. Three of these third party libraries, jQuery, jQuery UI Core, and jQuery Widgets are already included in the Drupal core. The Infusion package also includes several components and frameworks each contained in their own separate folder within this package, some of which include image files. There's also a directory that contains html files for the different UIO versions (Fat Panel, Full Page...), each of which will have to be conditionally loaded depending on the configuration the administrator has set in the config page. Also some files actually require some modification like changing the links for the script tag to point to the proper .js file. This will need to be done by the user downloading the module.

Best Practices for external libraries for Drupal dictate that users should download them and place them in the sites/all/libraries folder, a folder that is located outside of the module folder. Since the Fluid Infusion Builder downloads a package with all these different frameworks, components and libraries, the challenge here would be to come up with the most optimal way to load the necessary files for each page by using the proper Drupal hooks, figuring out which files should be defined using Libraries API's hook_libraries_info, possibly writing some custom callback functions, while making sure that setup and installation doesn't get too cumbersome for the user.