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Drupal 7 Media - Third Edition

By : Liran Tal
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Drupal 7 Media - Third Edition

By: Liran Tal

Overview of this book

Integrating images, video, and audio content on a Drupal site requires knowledge of appropriate community modules, and an understanding of how to configure and connect them properly. With the power of up-to-date technologies such as HTML5, responsive web design, and the best modules available in Drupal's eco-system, we can create the best Drupal 7 media website. Drupal 7 Media is a practical, hands-on guide that will introduce you to the basic structure of a Drupal site and guide you through the integration of images, videos, and audio content. Learn to leverage the most suitable community modules and up-to-date technology such as HTML5 to offer a great user experience through rich media content. The book begins with a practical introduction to the basic Drupal building blocks. It then breaks down each media resource, and explores them in detail. You will learn how to leverage Drupal's community modules to implement support for images, videos, and audio content, along with the best practices for implementation. We will be mentioning ideas throughout the book, which you can extend upon and use to build your own web applications. We will explore HTML5 support for media resources, the semantic web, and responsive web design, which are key topics in modern web application development. We will then build upon this knowledge and add more functionality to our sample website, such as support for analytic charts and customizing images, all of which we will implement using our own custom modules. You will learn everything you need to know about building, extending, and configuring a Drupal 7 media web application.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)

Adding videos hosted on third-party websites


In most cases, if your website is not about hosting video content there is almost no need to enable users to upload videos to your website. Instead, you would rather be more interested in providing the best interoperability as possible with other third-party websites such as YouTube, so that your users can share video content from such popular websites.

In this section we will explore how it is made possible to integrate with other websites.

Creating our video content type

Most commonly, users will want to link, embed, or include in some way, videos that have already been made available through third-party websites, such as YouTube, Vimeo, and Metacafe.

Our use case will be to create video content around the music industry, such as sharing videos of favorite bands. Some ideas on how you can take this concept forward and develop it further are as follows:

  • By adding social features such as rating, thumbs-up, and some gamification where you can create...