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Flash with Drupal

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Flash with Drupal

Overview of this book

Due to its power and expandability, Drupal has become one of the most popular open source content management systems. At the same time, Flash has been adopted for its ability to create beautiful and dynamic web applications. By combining these technologies, you can create Flash applications that are both visually stunning and rich in content. This book is an in depth discussion and tutorial on how to integrate Flash applications with Drupal CMS. It will describe the best techniques and practices for integrating Flash technology with the power and flexibility of Drupal by building real-life Flash applications. Within this book, you will learn how to build Flash applications that show text from within Drupal and also present images, music, and video within a single Flash application. You will also be able to take advantage of the expandable fields and content filtering provided from the CCK and Views modules to add flexibility and power to your Flash applications. Finally, you will learn how to add your own custom functionality to Drupal and then utilize that from within your Flash applications leaving you with a world of possibilities. This book starts out with a simple introduction to Flash and Drupal technology where you will create a simple Flash application and then embed that within Drupal. From there, each subsequent chapter builds on the previous chapters tackling a new and challenging task. For each new task, you will take a step-by-step approach to building a real-life application that utilizes the feature introduced within that chapter. You will also explore alternative design approaches that will eliminate the current design challenges that developers face when building Flash-driven Drupal sites; and all this while staying true to the Object Oriented Principles that govern the foundation of the ActionScript 3 language. By the end of this book, you will be able to apply all the lessons learned from this book to any other use case you may encounter.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Flash with Drupal
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
Preface

Drupal Services security


In recent times, security has become crucial for any web site tapped into the treacherous environment that is the World Wide Web. Because of the ever increasing popularity of Drupal, much effort has been placed on ensuring that any person using this incredible content management system does not fall victim to a security breach in their web site. Although it is impossible to plug all the holes, we can put our faith in Drupal that they are covering most bases when it comes to the security of our data. And the Services module is no exception. However, opening up the ability for any external web application to add and manipulate data within our web site is something we will want to approach with caution. Because of this, it is extremely important that we are very familiar with the security measures that the Services module employs to ward off malicious software.

In the previous chapter, we caught a glimpse of these security measures when we opened up the API for the user...