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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)

Understanding media configuration


Until now we have navigated through a Drupal website across many configuration pages and settings. In this chapter, we will further elaborate on the key areas which make up the media configuration for a Drupal site.

The media related plugins that we've installed on our site, as well as Drupal's own handling for media and files in general, offer configuration settings so that site builders can modify them to meet their needs. We will review these settings and examine particularly those which are relevant to how media assets are handled.

The filesystem

The filesystem configuration, which can be found by navigating to Configuration | Media | File System (/admin/config/media/file-system), allows us to tune the directory paths where files will be stored when uploaded to Drupal, regardless of whether they are uploaded via Drupal's image widget or the Media module's media library upload widget.

When working with a public filesystem path, files are placed in a directory...