Randy, There ARE javascript solutions for this and a few can be found here: http://www.webreference.com/programming/javascript/dragdropie/ http://www.walterzorn.com/dragdrop/dragdrop_e.htm http://www.webreference.com/dhtml/column7/ (particularly good)
What you'll find is that JS does not natively support the drag and drop feature and that either some type of wrapper needs to be built to make it possible or a bunch of functions. Furthermore, there may be cross-browser compatability issues depending on the WAY you want your drag and drop to work. And you always have the possibility that some genius might turn off the JS support in his or her browser thereby completely killing your nice script. But it sounds like you might have some control over this with your client(?). If you were to pick a JS solution, I think the third link has the most potential, but that's just my opinion and it's going to take some keen work to figure out a way to pass the car positions from the objects back into form elements that can be passed to PHP. I've done that kind of work before and it's rather "clunky". If I knew Flash better, I'd actually lean towards avoiding the JS route. With that in mind, I did a little searching on Google using "drag and drop" +flash and the search yielded a whole bunch of results which varied from how to drag and drop on the Flash stage to actually designing the client-side functionality you want. I'd suggest performing the same search yourself and finding the information that best suits your needs. If you get a solution working with JS, please post it or let me know. I'd be interested in looking at one that actually works with PHP to move data back and forth rather than just do jigsaw puzzles or whatever. Hope this helps, Rich -----Original Message----- From: Rankin, Randy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2003 8:37 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PHP-DB] PHP, MySQL and Flash Does anyone know of any articles on integrating PHP, MySQL and Flash to perform a drag and drop routine for updating a db? Specifically, I have a client who is _INSISTING_ that I integrate a drag and drop feature into his railcar storage application. He wants to be able to view two railcar storage tracks, Track A and Track B, then drag and drop cars from Track A to Track B ( or Track B to Track A ). Once he positions ( orders ) all the cars properly on each track, I need to update a MySQL db to reflect the changes. I have already developed the above feature so that he can do this 'textually', but he is _determined_ that he must have the graphic 'drag and drop' feature. There may be another method ( Javascript ? ) to accomplish the same effect. I am certainly open to any advice and/or opinions. Any pointers would be _greatly_ appreciated. Thanks, Randy Rankin -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
