Flash node is designed to provide a very easy way to upload flash content on to your Drupal website. It creates a new content type that accepts swf (or flv and mp3) files as an upload. It then does all the necessary work to display the flash content on your page.

Because it shields the content author from all the code it is not necessary to know how embed flash content, nor to give users access to input formats like PHP. This means it is especially useful for sites where you want to allow lots of users to be able to add flash content.

It will work "straight out the box" for display of swf content by using simple embedding mark-up. If you also install SWF Tools then flash node will take advantage of this to use features such as javascript embedding methods. By adding SWF Tools flash node also acquires the ability to accept flash video (flv) and mp3 audio files and present them for play back using whichever player is specified in the flash node settings. This means you can use flash node as a very simple audio upload module too.

Flash node also comes with its own macro format so you can re-use flash content from one node in another. The macro provides options for resizing and scaling flash content when it is re-used in other nodes.

If you want to use more complex flash content then flash node lets you pass flashvars to swf files, and if you enable the PHP filter these can even be dynamic to create content such as photo galleries that adapt as your site grows. Flash node also supports, and lets you alter, the base parameter so you can support ActionScript features such as loadMovie more easily.

And if the above means nothings to you and all you want to do is upload simple swf content without having to write a line of code then that's exactly what flash node is for!