Posts Tagged ‘Drupal’
How to get video into Drupal 6.
Posted by: mark in Saturna Project on April 9th, 2009
This might seem like an incredibly easy question to answer, but as a first-time Drupalist, with this being the first feature I tried to add to our site, I ended up experimenting with several different module combinations and ripped out all of the hair I had left before I finally got the videos playing.
To actually get the video files to play in Drupal, I followed this tutorial from Drupal Therapy: http://drupaltherapy.com/node/50, which uses the FileField and jQuery Media modules, running the videos in the free JW Mediaplayer http://www.longtailvideo.com/players/jw-flv-player/.
The JW Mediaplayer is probably the best bet in terms of a player, and its customizability was ideal for streaming video online as well as creating an off-line video gallery that could play in the Fog Alarm Building.
Once you have videos playing with jQuery Media and FileField, you'll probably want to get rid of the annoying FileField icon that appears just below the video. There are several posts in the Drupal forums about how to do this with PHP code, but it's simplest to just add the following code into your CSS file:.filefield-icon {display:none;}
The Saturna Project will be a Drupal 6 site
Posted by: mark in Saturna Project on February 21st, 2009
The Saturna Project website is going to run on Drupal. There are a several reasons we decided to use Drupal, one of the major ones being that it's open-source, so there's a great online support community. Another reason is that it's easy to create templates so new stories can be added to an existing Saturna site and blend in with the existing stories about the FAB and the Spanish exploration of the island. In addition to that, other communities can easily build their site, using their heritage buildings or stories as a focus, and they don't need to have a vast knowledge of computer code.Visit the Drupal.org site to learn more.
