CMSAcademy.2008.09.25

  • Length: 29:40 minutes (13.58 MB)
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Audio from this week's show in which we talk about how we might work together to build resources related to using Drupal for content management. We are encouraging people to leverage freely available resources on the web and to share these with others. As an example, Take Drupal for a Test Drive and Lullabot were two resource sites mentioned this week.

We're also encouraging interested parties to produce Jing Project screencasts of particular "issues" they are experiencing.

Drupal itself also offer a growing repository of information. As an example, we've recently had questions about errors with the getid3 module (it automatically "gets" the information in the ID3 tags embedded in MP3 files re artist et al.) and a search of the term reveals we're not the only ones, as well as some "solutions" and "workarounds" the community has applied to the problem.

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tricky part of getid3

 I believe the part folks might be having problems with is explained in section#2 of the install.txt file of the audio module.  Basically, you need to grab the getID3 library from here.  Unzip it and put it in audio/getid3

2. Install the getID3 package - optional but recommended. MAKE SURE YOU READ
   THE SECURITY NOTE BELOW!
 
   a. Download the project getId3 version from SourceForge.net. The latest
      version tested with the audio module is 1.7.7. Earlier versions contain
      bugs that will cause you headaches.
 
   b. Extract the archive into the sites/all/modules/audio/getid3 directory. When you're
      finished the directory structure should look something like:
 
        drupal/
          sites/
            all/
              modules/
                audio/
                  getid3/
                    README.txt
                    [...]
                    getid3/
                      getid3.php
                      write.php
 
  c. *** IMPORTANT ***
     YOU MUST DELETE THE 'demos' FOLDER OF THE ID3 LIBRARY. FAILURE TO DO SO
     OPENS UP A MASSIVE SECURITY HOLE AND MAKES YOUR SITE EXTREMELY VULNERABLE
     TO ATTACKS!