Seb Duggan

As of release 1.3 of Mango, the HTML structure of forms on the admin pages has changed, in an attempt to make them easier to design and maintain. This does however mean that admin pages for existing plugins will need to be updated (although they should continue working, albeit not perfectly laid out).

We have also added in jQuery behaviours and validation; but you shouldn't need to write any JavaScript to take advantage of this.

Below you will find some basic instructions of how to write admin forms in the framework that's been set up. You can also look at some of the built-in forms to see how they work...

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Now that the 1.3 update of Mango Blog has been released, I can start putting out some of the plugins I've been working on which require some of 1.3's functionality.

The first -- and simplest! -- is a plugin that will include the jQuery JavaScript library in your pages.

Why do this with a plugin?, you may ask...

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I've created another plugin for Mango - this time to integrate Woopra tracking and analytics.

Woopra's currently in beta, but I've been using it for some months now and it looks great; and with an API due to be opened up soon, there are lots of groovy features to come...

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It’s been an embarrassingly long time since my last post, but I’m back now and have finally got around to building a custom skin for Mango.

I expect the design may be tweaked here and there over the coming weeks; but I just wanted to get it out there to see how it looks…

I also hope to devote more time to developing for Mango now, so watch this space!

Another plugin for Mango Blog...

If you've got ColdFusion 8, you might like to use its built-in CAPTCHA generation instead of using LylaCaptcha (Mango's default). You can see it in action on this blog.

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