Table Of ContentDrupal 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
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Credits
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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
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Lead Technical Editor
Cover Work
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Technical Editors
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Sampreshita Maheshwari
Menza Mathew
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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.
He maintains a blog at http://janezurevc.name, where he writes about his work
and life.
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