Drupal Multimedia (Paperback)

Adding and handling multimedia in Drupal, such as images or video, requires the use of many contributed modules, and deciding which ones to use and how to get the most from them is often not a straightforward task.

This book will guide you through the steps necessary to add image, video, audio, and Flash elements into your Drupal sites. The book will take you through the contributed modules for handling media, showing you what they do, when to use them, and how to get the most from them. When contributed modules aren't enough, you will see examples of custom Drupal development to add that special touch to your media.

What you will learn from this book? You will learn to:

• Find your way round contributed modules for adding media to Drupal sites
• Store and display images in nearly any configuration a client may desire
• Scale and crop images before display on your site with ImageCache
• Add effects to your images such as drop shadows, light boxes, and more
• Examine how a developer may use Views, Embedded Media Field, and other tools to make embedding video even easier
• Add and manipulate video at a field level using the File Field module
• Create thumbnail overlays with jQuery
• Create custom audio fields

Approach

This book will guide you through the steps necessary to add image, video, audio, and Flash elements into your Drupal sites. For each topic, you start with simple techniques and move on to more advanced techniques. By the time you've completed this book, you should have a firm ground from which to tackle most multimedia needs, and enough of an understanding to creatively solve more complex problems.

Who this book is written for?

This book will provide information for administrators and professional site developers who are required to embed multimedia into a Drupal site. The reader needs basic knowledge of Drupal operation, but no experience of how Drupal handles multimedia items is expected.