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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)

Multiple file uploads


We've been using the Media module as a very integral part of building our rich media content website, and while it does provide a rich user experience, it has its shortcomings, and it's not a full blown solution.

We will examine how to add multiple files upload support across a Drupal website, thus providing better user experience for site builders as well as the site's user audience.

Multiple file uploads for site administrators

When we are mostly dealing with user experience and functionality, it's easy to forget the fact that you, the site builder and administrator, are a user too and should also benefit from better experience.

As site administrators we are able to upload media by navigating to Content | Files (/admin/content/file) and adding files to our site's media library, but clicking on the Add file link would only allow us to upload files one by one.

To resolve that, we can make use of the plupload library and its Drupal integration module. For the library, surf...