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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)

Customizing videos


Being able to add videos to your Drupal site is nice and it really opens up lots of possibilities but this functionality out of the box may not be enough at times.

You may often find yourself required to extend videos with your own custom fields that suit your content type target audience, or if you're using a third-party videos provider you may want to customize the look and feel of the embedded player for that provider.

Customizing video fields

Due to the Media module providing us with file-type specific configuration, we can take advantage of that, and configure each file type's behavior and setup. Between extending its fields, to managing its display mode, we gain pretty much complete control over how these media resources are handled.

The fact that the video field we created is actually a File entity, allows us to extend it with our own fields that will attach to the video that the user provided. In our case, we'd like to extend the default Title, Description, Tags, and...