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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)

Summary


We have reviewed the upcoming Drupal 8 release and the changes it is introducing. Many of those changes are architecture and software design related changes such as configuration management, core framework refactoring, better layout, and general mobile-ready with built-in support for HTML5.

As we’ve noted previously, it will take some time for Drupal 8 to be adopted by developers and site builders. While the media initiative group (https://groups.drupal.org/media/media-initiative) has been working hard on providing better media support for Drupal, as we’ve seen with the Media module throughout this book, there are currently no products to work with for Drupal 8, nor is there any built-in support for proper media handling as we covered in this book. Moreover, there are currently no media management related modules on Drupal’s modules ecosystem (to be exact there are only six modules in the media category and none of them is of relation to the topics in our book).