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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

About the reviewers

John K Murphy is a software industry veteran with more than 25 years experience as a programmer and database administrator. A graduate of the University of West Virginia, he began writing computer games in the 1980s before pursuing a career as a computer consultant. Over the years, John has enjoyed developing software in most major programming languages while striving to keep current with new technologies.

In his spare time, John enjoys scuba diving, skydiving, and piloting small planes. He lives with his wife and two children in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Michael Ruoss is founder of and senior developer at UFirst Group. He holds a Master’s Degree in Computer Science from Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich. After his studies, he worked for Optaros for two years as a developer/consultant. In 2010, he founded UFirst Group, a company doing system integrations based on open source frameworks.

During the past years, working for Optaros and UFirst Group, Michael Ruoss gained much experience in the integration of Drupal, Magento, Alfresco, and other CMS and eCommerce solutions. Michael also maintains two Drupal community modules, the SEO Compliance Checker, and the Overlay Gallery.

The book is dedicated to my wife Veronica and our daughters Clare and Francesca.