Flash with Drupal

Travis Tidwell Tidwell1847197582, 9781847197580

Книга Flash with Drupal Flash with Drupal Книги WEB дизайн/разработка Автор: Travis Tidwell Год издания: 2009 Формат: pdf Издат.:Packt Publishing Страниц: 380 Размер: 8 ISBN: 978-1-847197-58-0 Язык: Английский0 (голосов: 0) Оценка:Due to its power and expandability, Drupal has become one of the most popular open source content management systems. At the same time, Flash has been adopted for its ability to create beautiful and dynamic web applications. By combining these technologies, you can create Flash applications that are both visually stunning and rich in content. This book is an in depth discussion and tutorial on how to integrate Flash applications with Drupal CMS. It will describe the best techniques and practices for integrating Flash technology with the power and flexibility of Drupal by building real-life Flash applications.What you will learn from this book:• Understand how Flash and Drupal communicate• Embed Flash applications within Drupal and also learn about the important modules that make it easier to work with Flash in Drupal• Learn the asynchronous programming techniques for Drupal’s web services• Set up Drupal for web services using the services module to handle external interaction• Create a custom recipe content type for your Flash application and add new fields and images to it• Use Drupal’s imageCache module with Flash to ensure that the images are not too large when loaded into our application• Create an audio-handling class using ActionScript 3• Load and play audio in Flash, and add user controls like on and off• Utilize Object Oriented techniques in ActionScript 3 to build a common MediaPlayer class to be used for both audio and video applications• Create a playlist of video nodes for our custom media player using Drupal Views• Utilize user management within a Flash application to manage its users and protect the content of the site with a permission-based role system• Add content to the Drupal web site and also keep it safe from malicious software• Build a custom voting service and create a Flash-driven 5-star voter for Drupal using the popular FiveStar module