Building Movable Type Applications: Table of Contents

• Application Development in Movable Type
  • What is a Movable Type Application
  • Creating a New Screen in the Application
    • Step 1. Register a Mode and Mode Handler
    • Step 2. Implement a Mode Handler
    • Step 3. Create your Template
  • Working with Templates
    • Passing Data to a Template
    • Looping Over Data Passed to a Template
    • Including Custom Javascript and CSS in the Header
    • Creating HTML Forms
  • Requests and Responses
    • Handling Form Input
    • Control Flow in a Template
    • Working with HTTP Headers
    • Setting and Retrieving Cookies
    • Magic Tokens
  • Building Menus
  • Dialogs
    • Creating a Dialog
    • Spawning a Dialog
  • Shortcuts, Page and List Actions
    • Page Actions
    • List Actions
    • Quick Filters
    • Adding a Custom Status Message to a Screen
  • Dashboard Widgets
  • Listing Screens
    • Stubbing Out Your Listing Screen
    • Displaying and Customizing Your Table
    • Status and System Messaging
    • Displaying a Sidebar
    • Action Buttons
    • Implementing a Listing Mode Handler
  • Altering the User Interface
    • Alt-Templates
    • Loading Alternate Templates Based upon UserAgent
    • Transformation Callbacks
      • Transforming the Template’s Source
      • Using a Template Parameter Transformation Callback
      • Using a Template Output Transformation Callback
      • Traversing and Manipulating the MT::Template DOM
    • Forward Compatibility of Alt Templates and Transformer Callbacks
  • Plugin Settings
    • Registering Plugin Settings
    • Registering a Plugin Settings Template
    • Implementing a Settings Template
    • Fetching Plugin Data
    • Using Configuration Assistant
      • Config Assistant Registry Settings
      • Auto-Generated Template Tags
  • Binding Permissions to Modes and Dialogs