Flash with Drupal Table of Contents

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Table of Contents

Preface
Chapter 1: Flash with Drupal
Chapter 2: Building a "Hello World" Application
Chapter 3: Flash and CCK
Chapter 4: Drupal Images in Flash
Chapter 5: Drupal Audio in Flash
Chapter 6: Flash Video in Drupal
Chapter 7: The Hybrid Approach Part 1: Componentization
Chapter 8: The Hybrid Approach Part 2: Remote Control
Chapter 9: Flash with Drupal Views
Chapter 10: User Management
Chapter 11: Adding Content to Drupal
Chapter 12: Build a Drupal Five-star Voter in Flash
Index

• Preface

• Chapter 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

• Chapter 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
      • Step 4: Session handling
      • Connecting to Drupal using system.connect
      • Step 5: Drupal says "Hello World"
      • Loading a node in Flash
      • Step 6: Hooking up the text
      • Step 7: Passing the node ID using FlashVars
      • Step 8: Adding it to Drupal
  • Summary

• Chapter 3: Flash and CCK
  • Overview of a typical recipe web site
  • Using Drupal's 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
      • Adding ScrollBars to our TextFields
  • Creating a Drupal node template for Flash
    • Using the Content Template module (Contemplate)
  • Summary

• Chapter 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
    • 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
    • Adding the new Recipe Flash application to Drupal
  • Summary

• Chapter 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
    • 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!
    • Modifying our main.as file to use our new AudioPlayer
  • Summary

• Chapter 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

• Chapter 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

• Chapter 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
      • Creating a FlashNode template
  • Summary

• Chapter 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

• Chapter 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

• Chapter 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 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

• Chapter 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
  • 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
  • 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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