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Libraries API 7.x

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Documentation for Drupal 7 version of Libraries API.

See also: Libraries API 8.x documentation.

Installing an external library that is required by a contributed module

If you want to install a contributed module, which depends on an external library, and also depends on the Libraries API module, you are on

Using Libraries API 2.x (as a module-developer)

See also: The ideas and design behind Libraries API 2.x

Examples of contributed modules using Libraries API

The following modules utilize the Libraries API:

Libraries: default folder name per library

According to Libraries description:

The ideas and design behind Libraries API 2.x

WARNING: Not only is this document incomplete, but the APIs it is trying to document are still in flux and subject to change. Rather than

Using Libraries API 1.x (as a module-developer)

Description

Using packaged JavaScript libraries on Debian and Ubuntu

Debian's pkg-javascript team has been busy packaging a huge collection of popular JavaScript libraries in a 100% free manner that guarantees

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Libraries API 8.x

Documentation for Drupal 8 version of Libraries API.

Libraries API

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The common denominator for all Drupal modules/profiles/themes that integrate with external libraries.

This module introduces a common repository for libraries in sites/all/libraries resp. sites/<domain>/libraries for contributed modules.

External libraries
Denotes libraries ("plugins") that are neither shipped nor packaged with a project on drupal.org. We do not want to host third-party libraries on drupal.org for a multitude of reasons, starting with licensing, proceeding to different release cycles, and not necessarily ending with fatal errors due to conflicts of having the same library installed in multiple versions.

Drupal 7 only has built-in support for non-external libraries via hook_library(). But it is only suitable for drupal.org projects that bundle their own library; i.e., the module author is the creator and vendor of the library. Libraries API should be used for externally developed and distributed libraries. A simple example would be a third-party jQuery plugin.

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