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After we have our scroll bars in place, the next step is to click on each one of them and give them an instance name using the Properties panel. We will call each one ingredientScroll and instructionScroll respectively. Now that our scroll bars have instance names, we can add some simple code to our onNodeLoad function so that each scroll bar will refresh as the text is populated within them. We can do this by calling the update function on each UIScrollBar component as follows Called when...
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When we are finished walking through the steps above for the Instructions field, we should then have the following fields within our Recipe content type We should now have a Recipe content type that has all the necessary elements for any user to accurately submit a new recipe to our web site. So, let's go ahead and test this out by going to Create Content Recipe. Although, you will see the Instructions and Ingredients fields in the recipe form, you will most likely also notice that the Body...
Installing the ImageField module
In order to successfully install the ImageField module, we will also need to install the modules that the ImageField module is dependent on. Because of this, we will first need to install a total of three modules in order to use the ImageField module. These modules are as follows FileField ImageField Once we place these three modules in our site's modules folder, we can navigate to Administer Modules, where we should see the following Defines a file field type, mt . Depends Oft Content enabled...
The allowed domain and crossdomainxml
The allowed domain is the value that gets populated within the crossdomain.xml file of our Drupal site. The crossdomain.xml file is a file used by Flash to determine which sites it can communicate with and which sites it cannot. The Services module automatically generates this file using the Drupal menu system. We can see the contents of this simulated file by visiting our domain followed by crossdomain.xml, such as Although we do not have a crossdomain.xml file within our Drupal root on our...
ImageField for CCK
As far as I am concerned, CCK Content Construction Kit offers the most flexible method for adding custom content to our Drupal web site. Although there are dedicated modules that give us the ability to add custom content, I have found that it is easier and more consistent to take a single approach to create custom content through the use of CCK, and the ImageField module uses the power of CCK to add images to any content type in our system. I believe this flexibility is what gives ImageField an...
Adding the MediaGateway initialization to mainas
Our next task will be to open up the main.as file, where we will include the initialization of the MediaGateway in our boot up sequence. Here, our goal will be to find the right spot to include this initialization, while at the same time, keep a synchronous boot up process. By synchronous, I mean that we should not start a new boot up process unless the previous process has finished. For the MediaGateway initialize routine, this will require us to take advantage of the callback function to let...
Using the Content Template module Contemplate
The Content Template module Contemplate for short is a wonderful module that will allow us to create a template for any content type in our system. A template is simply a way to tell the system how to display each content type when it is viewed by each visitor, and we can use this to tell Drupal to show our new Recipe Flash application when anyone views a Recipe node. To begin, we will first need to download and install this module by going to http www.drupal.org project contemplate. Once we...
Installing a media player
There are several media players available to show video and audio content on our web site. Although each one of these players has their differences, all of them are fundamentally the same in how they play media on the site they are loaded. Following are the most popular media players that can be used with the jQuery Media module to show videos Dash Media Player JW FLV Player jw-flv-player Flow Player http www.flowplayer.org All of these players are great, so I suggest you read up on all of them...
Flash with Drupal Views
Up until this point, we have only been dealing with single pieces of content within Drupal called nodes. Within each node, we have learned how to manage any form of data that Drupal can throw our way. Our next step is to learn how to handle lists of nodes within Flash using the extremely popular Views module. Using the Views module within Flash can be extremely powerful, since it gives us complete control over how we would like to filter our content within our Flash application and then deliver...
Adding some status text
Now that we have a login button, our last element that we will need for our login block is a status text box that will tell the user if an error occurred. This can be done pretty easily by creating a new layer in their timeline called status. Now that we have our own status layer, we will create a new dynamic text field within this layer, with an instance name of status. Enter your username and password to login. We should now have a set of Flash objects that resemble a user login block. To...
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-1 flashObj window id Index our ID within the document object if document id .length undefined flashObj document id 1 We want to alert them if the object was not found. if flashObj alert id not found Our next task will be to create the gateway functions that will utilize this function to tie two Flash applications together.
How to use the API key
We can see firsthand how the API key works by clicking on the Browse link of the Services Administrator, where it lists all of the services available to external applications. Since not all service calls require an API key, we will need to select a service that performs data critical operations on our Drupal data in order to see what the API key does and what is required to implement this security check. We can see this key by selecting the same service that we did in the previous chapter by...
Adding the API key to our DrupalService
Since the API key is only required for the services where data manipulation is required, we will need to structure our DrupalService class to either use the API key for some service calls, while at the same time, only use the session ID for others. Because of this, we will need to create our very own serviceCall method within our DrupalService that will handle these custom arguments depending on which service is called. Also, because the declaration of the call method, within the Netconnection...
The DrupalService class
In all the previous chapters we interfaced with Drupal using the simple Netconnection call method. With each of these calls to our Drupal system, the API key was not required, and consequently, it was not necessary to build a separate class for interacting with our Drupal web site from a remote location. However, now, we have a special need to make certain service calls that require an added security measure, which should be encapsulated within its own class. Because of this, we will use this...
Installing the getID library
The getID3 library is a very useful PHP library that will automatically extract audio information called ID3 from any given audio track. We can install this useful utility by going to which is the getID3 library URL at SourceForge.net. Once we have done this, we should see the following We can download this library by clicking on the Download link on the first row, which is the main release. This will then take us to a new page, where we can download the ZIP package for the latest release. We...
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Now, to add this field, we will simply click on the Save button at the bottom of the Manage Fields page. This will then bring you to a separate page that allows you to further refine the behavior of our new field. I won't go over all the elements on this page because it is very self-explanatory, but we want to change the number of rows for our Text area to be more than 5, since recipe ingredients will almost always take up more than 5 lines. To do this, simply change the Rows text box to have...
Adding arguments to the service call
Our next task will be to determine which methods require an API key and which do not. This can be done using a simple function within our DrupalService class that will let us know if the API key is required given the service command. Although there are several functions that require an API key, we will only include the ones that we will use in our application. This function will look as follows Determines if we should use an API Key. private function usesKey command String Boolean switch...
Building a node editor in Flash
Before we can create our business logic for adding content to our Drupal installation, we will construct our node editor that we will use to view, edit, and add new content to our Drupal web site. Our goal here is to make this editor as easy to use as possible and make it obvious which operation we are performing viewing, adding, or editing . We can achieve this goal by creating an editor that resembles Drupal's node editor, where there are tabs at the top of the content that allow us to...
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Depends on Services Enabled , User erabled Depends on Services Enabled , Views enabled Depends on Services Enabled , Vptingap- miss ng At this point, we can see that we need to install the Voting API module, which can be found at before we can enable our new Voting Service. Once we install the Voting API module, we can install our new Voting Service module by clicking on the checkbox next to the Voting Service module, and then clicking on the button at the bottom of the screen that says Save...