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Drupal Web Services

By : Trevor James
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Drupal Web Services

By: Trevor James

Overview of this book

<p>Drupal is a rich and dynamic open source content management system that can feed content into its framework from other Web applications including Facebook, Flickr, Google, Twitter, and more, using standard communication protocols called web services. You may be aware that content can be driven to your Drupal site from different web applications, but when you think of experimenting with this, you can get bogged down due to limited knowledge of web services. Imagine how you will feel when you catch sight of a book that covers powerful web services that help you to integrate your Drupal site with different web applications <br /><br />This book covers efficient Drupal web services that help you to speed up your connections to Web applications. It will compel you to learn more and more about web services and use them to easily share data and content resources between different applications and machines. This book also covers the usage of each web service for different purposes. It provides step-by-step instructions on integrating Web services and Web applications with your Drupal powered Web site.<br /><br />Drupal Web services will show you how to work with all kinds of Web Services and Drupal. The book shows you how to integrate Amazon.com content into your site; add multimedia and video to your site using video services including CDN2 and Kaltura. You will learn how to prevent spam using CAPTCHA, reCAPTCHA and Mollom. You will also learn to explore the different types of Web services Drupal offers and can integrate with using the Services module and XML-RPC. Next you will learn to push content from Google documents, deploying this text and image based content as Drupal nodes.<br /><br />Next you'll integrate Your site with Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn and show how to post content from Drupal to these social networking applications automatically. At the end you will be enlightened with authentication methods for integrating Web services with Drupal.</p>
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Drupal Web Services
Credits
About the author
Acknowledgements
About the reviewers
Preface
Index

Modules used in Chapter 7


In Chapter 7, Drupal, Spam, and Web Services, we looked in detail at using contributed modules that help to prevent and block spam submissions to your Drupal site. This included examples using the CAPTCHA and reCAPTCHA modules; the Antispam module; and a return to our earlier discussion in Chapter 1, About Drupal Web Services of using the Mollom spam service and module.

CAPTCHA

This module adds a CAPTCHA field to your Drupal forms including the contact form, user registration process, and your custom content types to help prevent spam submissions from machine-based visitors to your Drupal site.

reCAPTCHA

The reCAPTCHA module extends the functionality of the CAPTCHA module by providing an integration of your Drupal site with the reCAPTCHA web service. To use this module, you'll need to sign up for an API key and account at the reCAPTCHA service application at: https://www.google.com/recaptcha/admin/create.

AntiSpam

The AntiSpam module allows for integration with multiple spam prevention web services including Akismet, TypePad, and Defensio. All three of these web service applications are accessible here:

We looked at the Mollom module and its project page and information in the Modules used in Chapter 1 section of this appendix.