By CoR-1 on

Hi!

I checked through module development documentation, but I am not sure how to do this.

Can modules create content independent from default Drupal's page creation flow?

For example, I'd like to build a module that maintains a list of music tracks. The module would provide special node type, for listing of tracks and track info, but I'd like to add playlisting functionality, ie. I'd like to provide a link, per track, for an .m3u playlist (generated by the module), so that the track can be streamed, instead of being linked as a file. The playlists, for example, would be accessed as /node/12/mp3, /node/12/ogg, /node/12/m3u, etc...

Or even better, example.com/tracks/12/playlist. This way I can make the module provide specially formatted podcasts with this url: example.com/tracks/feed

Can it be done?

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Comments

DriesK’s picture

DriesK commented

You should take a look at audio.module. That module already does a lot of what you want. You could supply patches to extend the existing functionality.

boris mann’s picture

boris mann commented

Actually, audio module just handles storing/uploading audio content, you'll want it plus the playlist module.

CoR-1’s picture

CoR-1 commented

Thanks, I'll look into those modules! I needed the non-html content functionality for something else as well, but I'll check out how the playlist module did it.