I just can't help myself, whenever I get an idea for a Drupal module stuck in my head, especially one that makes so much sense, I just have to write it.

Only a few days ago I got a feature request for my Drag'n'Drop Uploads (DnDU) module that I instantly dismissed. The user wanted the ability to modify the templates for the output that gets injected into a Textarea upon a successful Drag'n'Drop upload; While the idea had merit, DnDU takes advantage of the CCK/Field Formatters functionality, not defining the templates nor the template system itself.

My original opinion was for the user to simply write their own formatter inside of a custom module, as that is what I would do in that situation, but after I gave it a bit more thought I decided that the ability to write your own custom formatters inside of the Drupal back-end would not only be quite useful, it would also be quite easy to write... so I did.

Being notorious for my constant development builds with stable releases few and far between, and with so many ideas to play with, I decided that the best course of action would be to put Drag'n'Drop Uploads into a beta cycle.

And while I'm at it, how about a quick video to show off the new beta release:

I've been hard at work over the last week trying to get support for the WYSIWYG module into the Drag'n'Drop Uploads module, and have done exactly that. You can now Drag and Drop a file straight from your desktop, drop it onto your WYSIWYG editor and everything should be peachy, one uploaded file displayed inside the WYSIWYG.

I say should as there are still a few issues.

The biggest known issue is that the WYSIWYG support is not currently work with Google Gears, which means support is currently limited to Firefox 3.6+, Chrome 3+ and Safari 4+, but I hope to resolve this issue as soon as possible.

There are other issues related to the WYSIWYG module that are completely out of my hands, but thankfully using the natively supported browsers with either FCKeditor or TinyMCE (the superior WYSIWYGs IMO) is relatively issue free.

To see the new functionality in action, head over to the recently released Drag'n'Drop Uploads demonstration site where you can test it out for yourself.

For more information, or to download the latest versions, head to the project page.

As mentioned the other day (Module updates galore), I have recently released my Drag'n'Drop Uploads module, allowing users to Drag files from their local filesystem, Drop them into Drupal and have them auto-magically uploaded and referenced in the desired node textarea (Body, etc) using nothing but JavaScript/jQuery.

Well, in the short time since that initial release there has been three significant updates:

• Mozilla Firefox 3.6 support
• Google Gears support
• CCK/Field Formatters

While things have been pretty crazy the last few months (and don't look to be getting any less crazy any time soon), I have had a chance to spend some time on a few of my Drupal modules over the last week or two, so I thought it would be prudent to post a few of the changes in a quick blog post.

FileField Paths

While there isn't yet a new point release for FileField Paths, I have added a great new feature: Active Updates. Active Updates is basically 'Retroactive Updates' minus the 'Retroactive', File fields with the 'Active Updates' turned on will have their paths/names updated as their respective tokens are updated.