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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 11


In Chapter 11, Facebook and Drupal, we integrated the popular social networking application Facebook with our Drupal site using multiple contributed modules. This allows us to post our Drupal nodes and content out to our Facebook profile page as status posts and also to integrate our Facebook content with our Drupal site. The Drupal for Facebook suite of modules enables you as a Drupal developer also to write applications for integration with Facebook. You can also integrate your Facebook users and user account credentials with your Drupal account system and user base.

Drupal for Facebook

The Drupal for Facebook suite of modules provides you as a Drupal developer with methods for writing custom applications for integration of Facebook with Drupal.

This suite of modules includes: Canvas Pages, Drupal for Facebook, Drupal for Facebook Devel, User Management, Drupal for Facebook Applications, Extended Permissions, Friend Features, Register Users, Drupal for Facebook Forms, Streams, and Views.

Facebook Connect

The Facebook Connect module allows your site's users to log in to your Drupal site using their Facebook login credentials. This happens by connecting your Drupal site using this module with the Facebook API.

Facebook Auth