---
title: "Andrew Morton on File API and Images in Drupal 7"
url: "/podcasts/drupal-voices/andrew-morton-on-file-api-and-images-in-drupal-7"
type: episode
date: 2010-09-13
updated: 2014-04-09
---

# Andrew Morton on File API and Images in Drupal 7

#  Andrew Morton on File API and Images in Drupal 7 

  

*Podcast episode player*

[Andrew Morton](https://drewish.com/) (aka [drewish](http://drupal.org/user/34869)) talks about the new File API in Drupal 7 as well as some of the image handling support that is now built into Drupal 7 such as the filefield, imagefield and imagecache. He also talks a bit about some of the work that [Nate "quicksketch" Haug did in order to get the image support within Drupal 7](https://www.lullabot.com/podcasts/drupal-voices-49-nate-haug-image-handling-drupal-7). And he also talks about what the File API now allows in Drupal 7 as well as some of the work on stream wrappers in Drupal 7 and [Media module development that Aaron ](https://www.lullabot.com/podcasts/drupal-voices-43-aaron-winborn-media-module)Winborn has been working on.