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Drupal 7 Media Integrate, implement, and extend rich media resources such as images, videos, and audio on your Drupal 7 website Liran Tal BIRMINGHAM - MUMBAI Drupal 7 Media Copyright © 2013 Packt Publishing All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embedded in critical articles or reviews. Every effort has been made in the preparation of this book to ensure the accuracy of the information presented. However, the information contained in this book is sold without warranty, either express or implied. Neither the author, nor Packt Publishing, and its dealers and distributors will be held liable for any damages caused or alleged to be caused directly or indirectly by this book. Packt Publishing has endeavored to provide trademark information about all of the companies and products mentioned in this book by the appropriate use of capitals. However, Packt Publishing cannot guarantee the accuracy of this information. First published: July 2013 Production Reference: 1180713 Published by Packt Publishing Ltd. Livery Place 35 Livery Street Birmingham B3 2PB, UK. ISBN 978-1-84951-608-2 www.packtpub.com Cover Image by Erol Staveley ([email protected]) Credits Author Project Coordinator Liran Tal Arshad Sopariwala Reviewers Proofreader Srikanth AD Amy Guest David Madar Grigory Naumovets Indexer Hemangini Bari Michael J. Ross J.G Sivaji Graphics Janez Urevc Abhinash Sahu Acquisition Editor Production Coordinator Joanne Fitzpatrick Shantanu Zagade Lead Technical Editor Cover Work Sweny Sukumaran Shantanu Zagade Technical Editors Joyslita D'Souza Mausam Kothari Sampreshita Maheshwari Menza Mathew Zafeer Rais About the Author Liran Tal is a leading software developer, an expert Linux engineer, and an avid supporter of the open source movement. In 2007, he redefined the network RADIUS management by establishing daloRADIUS, a world-recognized and industry-leading open source project. Liran currently works at HP Software, leading the development team on a Drupal-based collaboration platform in HP's Live Network R&D group. At HPLN, Liran plays a key role in system architecture design, shaping the technology strategy from planning and development to deployment and maintenance in HP's IaaS cloud. Acting as the technological focal point, he loves mentoring his team mates, providing a drive for better code methodology and seekout innovative solutions to support business strategies. He graduated cum laude in his Bachelor of Business and Information Systems Analysis studies and enjoys spending time with his beloved wife and soul mate Tal, playing his guitar, hacking all things Linux, and continuously experimenting and contributing to open source projects. About the Reviewers Srikanth AD is a web developer who is passionate about developing and optimizing websites for better user experience and search engine visibility. He is particularly interested in adapting content management systems for developing structured and scalable websites. Check out his portfolio at http://srikanth.me. Or feel free to get in touch with him on Twitter @Srikanth_AD. David Madar is addicted to technology, which has also caught up his family. He has came from the mainframe systems, working many years in banking organizations. He has over ten years of work experience in developing web applications and websites, as freelancer and as an employee in the leading companies. He is currently employed at HP Software. Grigory Naumovets lives in Kiev, Ukraine. His background includes a Ph.D. in Physics and Mathematics. Since 1996, he has been working as an IT consultant, an IT specialist, and an ICT coordinator for several international projects, and then also as a freelance web developer and webmaster. After trying several web content management systems, he started using Drupal CMS in 2007. Since then, he has developed, maintained, and supported a number of monolingual and multilingual websites powered by Drupal 5, 6, and 7. He takes an active part in the community of Ukrainian Drupalers. Michael J. Ross creates custom websites for businesses and nonprofits, using Drupal and other leading web technologies. In addition, he writes technical articles and book reviews, of which more than 530 have been published in print and online. For this particular book, he did not perform copyediting, but instead provided input on its usage of Drupal. This is the fourth Drupal book for which he has done technical reviewing. Anyone in need of a new website can contact Michael at www.ross.ws. I would like to thank my mom and dad, who have always been supportive of my personal and professional efforts. J.G Sivaji graduated from college in the year 2009. He holds a bachelor's degree in Computer Science Engineering from Jaya Engineering College (affiliated to Anna University). He gave a start to his technical evangelism as a Google Summer of Code student in 2009. He worked on the Drupal quiz module to improve its features and fixed several bugs along with other developers. Since then he has been an active member, contributor to the community in terms of writing patches to core and maintaining contributed modules. Currently, he is playing the role of Technical Director at KnackForge. A technical enthusiast and one among the group of directors and founders of an exciting Drupal startup, KnackForge Soft Solutions Pvt., Ltd., Sivaji's prime role is not only confined to be the Lead of the Drupal team, Chennai branch, but also to hold the accountability for customer relationship and internal quality management. Sivaji has contributed to a couple of books published by Packt Publishing as a technical reviewer. The list includes Drupal 7 Module Development, Drupal 7 Themes book, and this book, Drupal 7 Media. I would like to thank my colleagues at KnackForge for motivating, realizing, and helping me to bring out the best in me. Janez Urevc is a Drupal engineer from Slovenia, EU. He has dedicated his life to free software and open source since high school. He graduated in the field of software development in the faculty of Computer and Information Sciences at University of Ljubljana. The topic of his bachelor thesis was implementation of Scrum methodology in a web development department of a bigger media company. He has been an active contributor to Drupal for a few years. He contributed to various contrib modules and Drupal 8 core (full list of his contributions can be found on http://drupal.org/user/744628). Besides Drupal, he's passionate about almost everything connected to web, free software, Linux, and software development. He participated in Google Summer of code, 2011 and was a mentor in 2012. He is currently working at Examiner. com, probably the biggest Drupal site on the entire Web. In the past he worked for Delo, Slovenia's biggest daily newspaper, where he led development of a few of the biggest Drupal sites in the region. 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