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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)

Enabling rating of content


Throughout this chapter we've seen how it's possible to extend the functionality of media assets, primarily images, and user experience when handling them. We have even covered how to customize this experience using our own module code.

Let's not forget that there are other ways to enhance overall media content with functionality and features which do not surround the actual media handling. There are many examples of this, such as:

  • Enabling comments to stir discussion amongst your web applications' community

  • Enabling the use of hash-tags or @ symbols to mention users, so that visitors get hooked to your website, and are encouraged to stay longer

  • Enabling the rating of content

The list can further grow depending on your use case and imagination.

We will explore the suggested enhancement of enabling users to rate the content, specifically media related, on your website. It is a very popular feature amongst social collaboration networks, which sets the path on creating...