Yeah, but what I don't understand is how your script connects with a
database, I mean what are the cart, timeline, cart-active... are? I've
noticed we have some trouble understanding one another, can we talk
somewhere like msn?

On 25 Maj, 16:05, Walter Lee Davis <[email protected]> wrote:
> You need to have an application set up on your server to receive a  
> request from the page, process it, and return a value. The example I  
> gave was extracted from a working application. There is a server side  
> component to my solution that would not make any sense to you because  
> it has nothing to do with your application. Your application surely  
> must have some local equivalent, otherwise how are you getting the  
> rest of the list of elements to show on the page in the first place?
>
> In pseudocode, here's what my server-side application does:
>
> On page load:
>
> Query the database, get a list of the elements in the table foo, in  
> the order of their position column. Turn that into HTML, and inject  
> into the page template.
>
> On receipt of a POST from the page asking for a new ID:
>
> Insert into the database, creating a new row in the table foo, get the  
> auto-number ID column value, and return that as ResponseText to the  
> requesting browser.
>
> On receipt of a POST from the page containing a new sort order:
>
> Iterate over the POST['sort_order'] in order, updating the foo table  
> with the new order by setting the position column to match the key of  
> that array.
>
> All three of these things are done by one script in my application,  
> your mileage will necessarily vary.
>
> Walter
>
> On May 25, 2009, at 7:23 AM, WLQ wrote:
>
>
>
> > Seems like I can't connect your script, I made to divs with cart and
> > timeline. But nothing happens, can you tell me what else to create
> > apart of javascript?
>
> > On 24 Maj, 18:45, Walter Lee Davis <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> Could you post an example of what you're trying to run on Pastie or
> >> jsbin and indicate what errors you're seeing in Firebug? I extracted
> >> the code I posted from a working page, but I may have messed some
> >> things up in trying to simplify it as an example (removing locally
> >> important things that would only be confusing for your use-case).
>
> >> Walter
>
> >> On May 24, 2009, at 11:56 AM, WLQ wrote:
>
> >>> I can't get your script to work, don't know why...
>
> >>> On 5 Maj, 20:21, Walter Lee Davis <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>>> You have to ask the database for the next ID by creating a new  
> >>>> record
> >>>> and reading its response. That's what the Ajax Request bit was in  
> >>>> my
> >>>> example. When you drop, it asks the database for a new widget, and
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