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.

詳細內容：
在Drupal中添加和處理多媒體，如圖片或視頻，需要使用許多貢獻模塊，並且決定使用哪些模塊以及如何充分利用它們通常並不是一個簡單的任務。本書將引導您完成將圖片、視頻、音頻和Flash元素添加到Drupal網站中所需的步驟。本書將介紹處理媒體的貢獻模塊，向您展示它們的功能、使用時機以及如何充分利用它們。當貢獻模塊不足以滿足需求時，您將看到如何通過自定義Drupal開發來為媒體添加特殊效果。

本書的學習重點包括：
- 查找用於將媒體添加到Drupal網站的貢獻模塊
- 在幾乎任何客戶需求的配置中存儲和顯示圖片
- 在圖片顯示之前使用ImageCache進行縮放和裁剪
- 為圖片添加效果，如陰影、燈箱等
- 研究開發人員如何使用Views、Embedded Media Field和其他工具來更輕鬆地嵌入視頻
- 使用File Field模塊在字段級別添加和操作視頻
- 使用jQuery創建縮略圖覆蓋
- 創建自定義音頻字段

方法：
本書將引導您完成將圖片、視頻、音頻和Flash元素添加到Drupal網站中所需的步驟。對於每個主題，您將從簡單的技術開始，逐漸轉向更高級的技術。完成本書後，您應該具備解決大多數多媒體需求的基礎知識，並且具備足夠的理解能力來創造性地解決更複雜的問題。

本書的讀者對象：
本書將為需要將多媒體嵌入Drupal網站的管理員和專業網站開發人員提供信息。讀者需要對Drupal操作有基本的了解，但不需要對Drupal如何處理多媒體項目有經驗。