Things have, again, been revolving around the new admin UI. I’ve made substantiel progress with the nagivation, although it is not final. Also, there is no actual design applied yet which means unless elements are created by jquery there isn’t much style at all.

On the plus side it looks like it might be possible to style most of the UI using the jquery themeroller.

As usual there have been some improvements and additions to core and store code along the way, however nothing substantial this week with perhaps one exception: I’ve added support for user based authorization. That means it is now possible to control access to admin pages by granting permission to a role (group) or individual users. (Still no UI to manage this, sorry).

As far as UI content is concerned I’ve done lots of small improvements and prepared almost all content for translation.

The biggest chunk of work this week was spend on providing a way to manage all zencart configuration options in the new admin UI. As it turned out, using widgets to render the form elements was really as easy as I had hoped! That means no need to load additional zencart code at all. For the technically inclined, the code parses the set function value and then it’s more or less just a switch to select and populate the appropriate form widget.

Finally, because I am a bit proud a nice new screenshot: