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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)

Introduction to Drupal 8


If you are familiar with Drupal’s release lifecycle, then you should know that there are always two versions. The officially released and stable version, in our case this is Drupal 7, which is kept up to date with any bugs or security patches required so it is fully supported. Once Drupal 7 was officially released, developers were able to start focusing their efforts on implementing their next version of a brand new and shining Drupal.

This upcoming version of Drupal 8 is as revolutionary as any of the earlier major releases.

Note

If you would like to get your copy of the latest version of Drupal 8 then you’d need to set up git (http://git-scm.com), the distributed version control system, and get a copy of the Drupal repository. From command line, you can simply run git clone http://git.drupal.org/project/drupal.git, which will create a drupal/ directory in the current directory tree. As it is with git, you’d be getting the entire repository with all branches that were...