The Web Development Blog has a recent tutorial posted talking about a free option for the TinyMCE tool to work with uploading images.

TinyMCE is a great online WYSIWYG editor which is used for a lot of projects, for example this Wordpress blog application (the content backend). [...] Sometimes the Image manager too looks too big for some projects and than is the following (free) solution an option. You can download your copy from the TinyMCE website.

He shows how to include the plugin (so the resulting TinyMCE instance can include it) and the PHP code to do the handling for the upload, based on this upload class. The end result is a simple, integrated feature that lets you upload a few different kinds of images.

The JSLabs blog posted something yesterday (Jan 21st, 2006) about a new release for one of the most popular PHP blogging engines out there - WordPress. A new release, version 2.1, should be coming today (Jan 22nd, 2006).

Some of the new features that will be included are:

• an auto-save function for the drafts that you're working on using Ajax to send the data to the backend
• because of an effort to keep things compatible, the WordPress team worked to keep most plugins from breaking with the new update
• significant improvements to the rich text editor in the composition pane of the administrative side (improvements to the TinyMCE functionality)

You can get more info in the update from this post on the WordPress site and keep an eye out on their download page for this new update.