Flash with Drupal

This book takes a step-by-step approach to building Flash applications for use with the Drupal Content Management System. In each chapter, you walk through the evolution of a real Flash application designed for Drupal. Every chapter builds on the previous one by presenting a more challenging feature for each additional chapter. This book is written for developers who wish to build dynamic flash applications. Although we will be using Drupal for our Content Management System, the lessons learned within this book can easily be applied to other content management systems such as Joomla or WordPress. Because of this, you are not assumed to be familiar with Drupal. Any interaction with Drupal will be described in full detail so that anyone can follow along. As for Flash, it is not necessary to be familiar with how to use Flash since that too will be covered within this book. However, it is recommended that you have some modest understanding of ActionScript and PHP since there are many code examples within this book.

Author Biography

Travis Tidwell is the founder and CTO for TMT Digital (http://www.tmtdigital.com), a company that specializes in the development of Flash applications for the Drupal content management system. He is also the sole developer for the Dash Media Playe(http://www.tmtdigital.com/project/dash_player, http://www.drupal.org/project/dashplayer), which is a media player built specifically for Drupal. As well as contributing this media player, Travis is also the author and co-maintainer for the FlashVideo module (http://www.drupal.org/project/flashvideo), which is a complete video solution for Drupal. Travis graduated with a Bachelors of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Oklahoma State University and has worked as an Embedded Systems Engineer for companies specializing in automotive and agricultural GPS products. Travis then fell in love with web development and more specifically with Drupal and Flash, where he has developed numerous sites including http://www.delicioso.com for Food Network’s Ingrid Hoffmann. Travis is happily married to his beautiful wife, Erin, and is the proud parent of a feisty one-year-old named Brycen. When Travis isn’t working on the computer (which is rare these days), he enjoys the performing arts including playing guitar, singing, and tap dancing (Search for ‘Soul Man Tap’ at http://www.youtube.com to see him in action).