Additional metadata

There is already a way to simply and easily add extra metadata information to the media, I simply haven't added all the major ones that I planned to have in there. source will definitely be in there, but as yet, I haven't had a chance to add all the really cool things.

Also, I'm changing the structure of the entire module to be much more general, as well as easier to manage.
This includes isolating somewhat the API, so that module developers (such as yourself), can do their job in a nice clean way :).

I'd be very interested in seeing what you've written for the bulk import module, since I'd like to add that function to this module.

For bulk importing I wrote this one:
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function _att_media($filename, $nid, $source, $title)
{
global $debug_am;
$debug_am.="Importing and attaching $filename\n";
$clean_title=preg_replace("/\s+/"," ",$title);
$clean_source=preg_replace("/\s+/"," ",$source);

$metadata=array('title'=>$clean_title, 'source'=>$clean_source);
if (!$media=media_item_create($filename)){
$debug_am.="Failed to create media item\n";
return false;
}

$der_list=media_derivatives_by_ext($media->ext);

foreach($der_list as $der_name){
$debug_am.="Creating $der_name \n";
if ($name=media_derive($media->mid, $der_name, true,true,false)){
$debug_am.="$name\n";
}else{
$debug_am.="failed...\n";
}
}

media_item_metadata_save($media->mid, $metadata);

db_query( "INSERT INTO {media_attachments} "
."(nid,mid,weight,caption,flags,visible) VALUES (%d,%d,%d,'%s',%d,%d)",
$nid, $media->mid, 0, $clean_title, 0, 1 );

return true;
}
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Apart from dumping $debug_am in the footer, inside a pre-tag there's nothing strange here.

I discovered that copying the importee to the dir returned by file_directory_temp() - and submitting the filename as $tmp_dir."/".basename($filename) is a requirement to get media_file_copy working (submitting a filename with path relative to $drupal_root was not enough).

This function is called after I have imported my story data into a node (since we need the nid).

If you want a specific metadata to exist, and be editable simply through the browser, you need to create a module which has the following within it.

I'll be documenting things a bit more clearly in the API, especially once it gets closer to completion.
Hopefully this helps, but I'll also be uploading a heavily modified version of the module on Jan 1.

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