Posted by aaron on December 5, 2009 at 12:23am
FYI, Alex UA and I are planning a version 2 of Embedded Media Field, in part to prepare for the transition to the Media module for Drupal 7.
Here's the road map, mostly for my reference:
(削除) Fixes and improvements to emthumb (削除ここまで)(courtesy of andrewlevine!)(削除) Check for duplicate provider files, giving a notice/warning to administrators in that case (削除ここまで)(削除) Start branch 2 of development (削除ここまで)(削除) Move the Flickr provider to Media: Flickr (削除ここまで)(削除) Move the Archive.org provider to Media: Archive (削除ここまで)- Move the YouTube provider to Media: YouTube
(削除) Backport the Styles module to d6 (削除ここまで)- Add emfield Styles (allowing Imagecache for emfield!)
- Gradually move other providers to external locations
I also plan to investigate the following options during the process:
(削除) Require and leverage PHP 5's simplexml for data retrieval (削除ここまで)- Integrate the module with the Embed module
- Create a centralized storage for field stream data, adopting the stream://uri format in d7
- Find general UI improvements
- Improve the emfield API, making it more generic, flexible, extensible, and robust
- Ultimately migrate to the Media module in part or entirely (in d7, and for d6 when it's backported)
Anything else to put on the wishlist here?
Categories: embedded media field, Media module, styles
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It's official!
Started version 2 of Embedded Media Field! Only bug fixes for version 1. And remember that the Drupal 5 version will not be supported after the release of Drupal 7.
Aaron Winborn
Drupal Multimedia (my book, available now!)
AaronWinborn.com
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emfield + vertical tabs and more...
Emfield version 2 is coming along well. It requires PHP 5.2, but this is a Good ThingTM, as it allows us to retrieve our remote data using simplexml rather than the hacked-up version I'd hobbled together to allow PHP 4. Also, cleaned up the admin menus some, separating the video/image/etc modules into separate tabs and integrating with Vertical Tabs.
Note that all the providers will be moving out into new modules. For instance, this has already happened with Media: Flickr and Media: Archive. Those modules will silently override the old version of emfield. If you don't have one of the required modules on an update, when logged in as an admin, you'll get a warning message (that you can turn off).
Coming up next: AJAX previews of your remote media!
Aaron Winborn
Drupal Multimedia (my book, available now!)
AaronWinborn.com
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