This part is duplicating built-in functionality. Read up on
Sortable.serialize (with a z) in the Wiki. It's very powerful and
configurable.
var foo = Sortable.serialize('chunksList',{}) //no need to tell it
tag:li -- it's the default
...time passes...
var fooOrder = foo.serialize();
The result will be an array where the index equals the list position,
and the value equals the numerical id of the element. Elements must be
ID'd in the following manner:
someString_1
someString_2
someString_3
...
one underscore per ID, followed by a number -- which does not need to
be incremental, that's just an artifact of my example (but it must be
locally unique, naturally).
If you sorted this into 2,3,1 order, you would get back [2,3,1] from
the serialize method, post that to your server as 'order', and on your
server side, you would use something like this:
//php
foreach($_POST['order'] as $k=>$v){
if($item = ActiveRecord::FindById('items',$v){
$v->position = $k+1;
$v->save();
}
}
and you're done.
Walter
On Feb 23, 2009, at 8:12 AM, vanq69 wrote:
> function serialise(listID)
> {
> var length = document.getElementById(listID).childNodes.length;
> var serialised = "";
> for (i = 0; i < length; i++)
> {
> var li = document.getElementById(listID).childNodes[i];
> var id = li.getAttribute("id");
> // add number to serialised array
> serialised += encodeURIComponent(id) + "_";
> }
> // returns array (with last "_" removed
> return serialised.substring(0, serialised.length - 1);
> }
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