Last week I wrote about the awesomeness that is the CTools ajax framework. If you're anything like me, your mind immediately started racing about all the cool possibilities this opens up. One of those cool possibilities is yet another hidden CTools gem, the modal framework. If you've ever used panels, then you've seen CTools modals in action. In this post, I'll show you how to use modals, in the same way that panels does.

Ajax is nothing new. And especially since Drupal’s adoption of jQuery, ajax has certainly become much easier. Generally, ajax…