jQuery: What to do with the list that sortable('serialize') returns?
Found it! I needed to add the option key:'string'
which changes the variable name to 'string' instead of 'id'.
var order = $('#projects ul').sortable('serialize',{key:'string'});
$.post('ajax.php',order+'&action=updateOrder');
I think the best way is not to use sortable('serialize')
at all, but use jQuery to simply iterate over the sorted ids, like so:
order = [];
$('ul').children('li').each(function(idx, elm) {
order.push(elm.id.split('_')[1])
});
$.get('ajax.php', {action: 'updateOrder', 'order[]': order});
This has an advantage over explicitly appending the serialized sortable to the URL (or a parameter) in that it doesn't include the order[]
parameter at all if there are no li
in the list. (When I had this problem I was using sortable(connectWith: 'ul')
so it was entirely possible for a user to drag all the li
from one list). In contrast appending the serialized sortable would leave an unwanted '&'.
Lets say you were ordering news items, and your page sent this to "?id[]=2&id[]=3&id[]=1&id[]=4&id[]=5" your php code.
$_POST['id'] # would be [2,3,1,4,5]
// Now we need to update the position field of these items
foreach($_POST['id'] as $i=>$id ):
// For our first record, $i is 0, and $id is 2.
$post = Post::get($id); # Do you own database access here
$post->position = $i; # Set the position to its location in the array
$post->save(); # Save the record
endforeach