Flash with Drupal. Build dynamic, content-rich Flash CS3 and CS4 applications for Drupal 6 Travis Tidwell, Dries Buytaert

Spis treści książki

• Flash with Drupal
  • Table of Contents
  • Flash with Drupal
  • Credits
  • About the Author
  • About the Reviewer
  • Preface
    • What this book covers
    • What you need for this book
    • Who this book is for
    • Conventions
    • Reader feedback
    • Customer support
      • Downloading the example code for the book
      • Errata
      • Piracy
      • Questions
  • 1. Flash with Drupal
    • Why Flash with Drupal?
    • Who is this book for?
    • Getting started with Drupal
      • Installing Drupal
        • Installing Apache-MySQL-PHP (AMP)
        • Creating the Drupal database
        • Creating a database user
        • Increasing PHP memory
        • Installing Drupal
      • Adding content to Drupal
    • Getting started with Flash
      • Creating a new Flash project
        • Setting up the workspace
        • A: The Stage
        • B: The Toolbar
        • C: The Timeline
        • D: The Properties panel
        • E: The Color Palette
        • F: The Library
    • Creating a Flash application
      • Creating a background
        • Rectangle properties
        • Adding a gradient
      • Adding text to a Flash application
        • Text properties
      • Compiling our Flash application (making a SWF)
        • Publish Settings
    • Adding Flash content to Drupal
      • Installing a contributed Drupal module
      • Adding Flash!
    • Summary
  • 2. Building a "Hello World" Application
    • How Flash and Drupal communicate
      • Understanding web services
        • Synchronous versus asynchronous programming
      • Setting up Drupal for web services
        • Installing and configuring the Services module
        • Servers and Services
        • Installing AMFPHP
        • Services configuration
        • Creating a Services key
        • Services settings
        • Service Permissions
      • Building a web service-driven "Hello World" application in Flash
        • Step 1: Creating our Flash application
        • Step 2: Creating a main.as ActionScript file
        • Step 3: Connecting to Drupal
          • Using the NetConnection class
          • Connecting to a remote gateway
          • Using the NetConnection call routine
        • Step 4: Session handling
        • Connecting to Drupal using system.connect
        • Step 5: Drupal says "Hello World"
        • Loading a node in Flash
          • Programming without race conditions
        • Step 6: Hooking up the text
        • Step 7: Passing the node ID using FlashVars
          • Using FlashVars in a Flash application
        • Step 8: Adding it to Drupal
    • Summary
  • 3. Flash and CCK
    • Overview of a typical recipe web site
    • Using Drupals Content Construction Kit
      • Creating a new content type
      • Adding custom fields to your Recipe content type
        • Adding a new field
        • Changing the default Body field
    • Showing CCK fields in Flash
      • Building a Recipe widget in Flash
      • Adding dynamic TextFields for Drupal content
      • Using ActionScript to show Drupal CCK fields
        • Using the Services Administrator
        • Showing CCK information in ActionScript
          • Showing the node description
          • Showing the ingredients and instructions CCK field
        • Adding ScrollBars to our TextFields
    • Creating a Drupal node template for Flash
      • Using the Content Template module (Contemplate)
    • Summary
  • 4. Drupal Images in Flash
    • Image handling in Drupal
      • ImageField for CCK
      • Installing the ImageField module
        • Adding an Image field to our Recipe content type
        • Adding an image to our Recipe node
        • Verifying that the image is attached
      • Adding an image to our Recipe Flash application
        • Adding a MovieClip container for our image
        • Using ActionScript to load the Recipe image
          • Working with the Image path
          • Creating a loadImage function
          • Loading an Image
      • Resizing an image
      • Preserving the width and height ratio (scaling)
      • Using Drupal's ImageCache with Flash
        • Creating an ImageCache preset
        • Adding an ImageCache image in Flash
          • Changing our ActionScript for ImageCache
      • Adding the new Recipe Flash application to Drupal
    • Summary
  • 5. Drupal Audio in Flash
    • Working with audio in Drupal
      • Installing the getID3 library
      • Setting up the Audio content type
      • Creating an Audio node
      • How our player will be different (and better)
    • Building a custom audio player for Drupal
      • Examining the Audio node using Services Administrator
      • Referencing the audio file path
      • Writing a custom AudioPlayer class
      • Playing audio in Flash
      • Using our AudioPlayer class to play audio
    • Adding controls to your custom audio player
      • Adding a play and pause button
        • Creating a base button MovieClip
        • Adding the PlayButton movie clip
          • Drawing a play icon
      • Creating a pause button from the play button
      • Linking MovieClips to ActionScript
      • Adding the AudioPlayer to the stage
      • Modifying the AudioPlayer class to use play and pause
        • Step 1: Adding the SoundChannel
        • Step 2: Adding load, play, and pause functions
        • Step 3: Reference the mcAudioPlayer MovieClip
        • Step 4: Hooking up our buttons!
          • Declaring playButton and pauseButton as buttons
      • Modifying our main.as file to use our new AudioPlayer
    • Summary
  • 6. Flash Video in Drupal
    • Working with video in Drupal
      • Creating a video content type
        • Adding a video file field
      • Installing and configuring the jQuery Media module
        • Configuring the jQuery Media module
        • Installing a media player
      • Creating a video node
      • Building a custom video player in Flash
        • Creating a MediaPlayer base class
        • Adding play and pause button instances to MediaPlayer
        • Removing uncommon code from MediaPlayer
        • Modifying the AudioPlayer class to derive from MediaPlayer
        • Extending and overriding base (super) class functionality
        • Creating a VideoPlayer class
        • Working with Video, NetStream, and NetConnection
        • Initializing our video variables
        • Creating the video object
      • Adding video functionality
        • Adding video load
        • Adding play and pause functionality
      • Creating a new VideoPlayer MovieClip
      • Linking the VideoPlayer to Drupal
        • Loading and playing our Drupal video
      • Adding our custom media player to Drupal
    • Summary
  • 7. The Hybrid Approach Part 1: Componentization
    • What is the hybrid approach?
    • Creating a media player control bar
      • Creating a ControlBar class
      • Removing the ControlBar dependency from MediaPlayer
      • Adding the ControlBar to the stage
      • Communication between ControlBar and MediaPlayer
    • Creating a communication gateway
      • Using static functions
        • Using the this pointer
        • Making the connections
      • Adding the ControlBar to our Flash project
        • Removing the control bar from the MediaPlayer
    • Summary
  • 8. The Hybrid Approach Part 2: Remote Control
    • Client-side Flash communication
      • Flash to JavaScript communication
        • Calling a JavaScript function from Flash
        • Calling a Flash function from JavaScript
        • Initializing the ExternalInterface
        • Adding the MediaGateway initialization to main.as
        • Adding outgoing messages to the MediaGateway
        • Adding remote or local functionality
      • Building a JavaScript Gateway
        • Locating a Flash application using JavaScript
        • Creating the gateway functions between two Flash applications
      • Flash and JavaScript synchronization
        • Step 1: Create an array of communicating Flash applications
        • Step 2: Flash calls to see if the JavaScript Gateway is ready
        • Step 3: Flash application registers with JavaScript
        • Step 4: JavaScript initializes our Flash when all have registered
      • Using our remote control within Drupal
        • Adding the JavaScript Gateway to Drupal
        • Adding our Media Player to Drupal
        • Changing our Content Template
        • Adding the Remote Control
          • Adding block visibility for video and audio node types
        • Creating a FlashNode template
    • Summary
  • 9. Flash with Drupal Views
    • Using the Drupal Views module
      • Views: Installation and Configuration
      • Setting up a view
        • Creating a new page view
        • Adding fields to a view
        • Adding a Filter to our view
    • Using the Views Service
      • Step 1: Install the Views Service
      • Step 2: Configure user permissions
      • Step 3: Verify it works
    • Building a Flash Playlist using Drupal
      • Creating a node teaser
        • Creating a teaser background
        • Using the timeline to add different teaser states
        • Adding a title to the teaser
      • Creating a Teaser class
      • Building a ListView class
        • Adding our ListView to Flash
      • Adding the ListView to our Media Player
        • Creating a Media Region
        • Populating the list view
    • Summary
  • 10. User Management
    • Drupal user management
      • Adding new user roles
      • Adding permissions to a user role
      • Creating new users and assigning them roles
    • The User Service module
      • • Installing the User Service
        • Configuring permissions
        • Configuring the User Service module
    • Building a Flash user login block
      • Welcoming our logged-in users
      • Creating a login button
      • Adding some status text
      • Creating a mcLogin movie clip
    • User handling within Flash
      • Hooking up our login button
      • Checking for a username and password
    • Logging into Drupal
      • Adding a user responder
      • Logging in
      • Logging out
    • Summary
  • 11. Adding Content to Drupal
    • Drupal Services security
      • The API key
        • API key configuration
        • The allowed domain and crossdomain.xml
        • How to use the API key
      • Building a Drupal service in Flash
      • The DrupalService class
        • Adding the API key to our DrupalService
        • Adding arguments to the service call
          • Adding the base URL
          • Adding the TimeStamp
          • Adding the nonce
          • Adding a hash
      • Adding DrupalService functionality to main.as
    • Building a node editor in Flash
      • Creating view, edit, and add tabs
        • Adding normal, hover, and selected states
        • Duplicating the mcView for the edit and add tabs
      • Adding a background to our node
      • Changing the node view
      • Creating a node edit form
    • Adding content to Drupal from Flash
      • Adding tab functionality
      • Saving a node from Flash
    • Editing existing content in Drupal
    • Summary
  • 12. Build a Drupal Five-star Voter in Flash
    • Building a custom Voting Service for Drupal
      • The module info file
      • Voting Service module
        • Installing the Voting Service module
      • Building a Custom Service
        • Registering external web services using hook_service
        • Defining web service callback functions
        • Adding arguments and voting logic using Voting API
          • The Voting API module
    • Building a five-star voter in Flash
      • Voter design
        • Making some stars
        • Adding different vote types
        • Adding the vote layers to the mask layer
        • Adding vote hit regions
          • Using name conventions
    • Creating a Voter class in ActionScript
      • Initializing the voter
      • Adding the event handlers
      • Handling the voting hover events
      • Getting a vote from Drupal
      • Setting a vote in Drupal
      • Adding the voters to main.as
    • Summary
  • Index

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