Drupal 7 Media

This is a practical, hands-on guide packed with examples that will help you build rich Drupal 7 media web applications. If you are a Drupal site builder and you wish to spice up your web applications with rich media content, then this book is for you. A basic understanding of HTML, JavaScript, and basic PHP module development in Drupal would be helpful, but is not necessary.

Summary.

Cover; Copyright; Credits; About the Author; About the Reviewers; www.PacktPub.com; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: Drupal's Building Blocks; Nodes and entities; Nodes; Entities; Creating a content type; Fields; Adding fields to Memo; Configuring the Memo display; Summary; Chapter 2: Views, Blocks, and Themes; Views; Installing the Views module; Adding a new Views; Blocks and themes; Blocks; Understanding block regions; Assigning blocks to regions; Creating blocks; Themes; Installing a new theme; Template engines; Summary; Chapter 3: Working with Images; The Media module.

Adding a media asset fieldThe media library; Remote media assets; WYSIWYG; Text formats; Adding a rich-text editor; Embedding images in content; Image galleries; Enabling an image gallery feature; Creating an image gallery; Galleries as blocks; Summary; Chapter 4: HTML5 in Drupal; HTML5 form elements; HTML5 media; HTML5 canvas; HTML5 resources; HTML5 in Drupal; A canvas playground; Creating a content type for the canvas field; Creating a new DigiDoc; Summary; Chapter 5: Video Capabilities; Adding videos hosted on third-party websites; Creating our video content type.

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