Flash with Drupal

Autoren: Travis Tidwell
Verlag: Packt Publishing
Erschienen: May 2009
Sprache: Englisch
Beschreibung:

Build dynamic, content-rich Flash CS3 and CS4 applications for Drupal 6

• 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