Question

I’m using the sortable function in jquery to sequence a faq list. Needless to say, i’m new to this concept. Anybody have any good examples of the backend for this. I have the front working fine, but updating the sequence in the database is another story. My backend is ColdFusion btw.

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

Define the faq:

<div id='faq'>   <div id='q1'>...</div>   <div id='q2'>...</div>   (...)   <div id='q100'>..</div> </div> 

Make faq sortable:

<script type='text/javascript'>   $('#faq').sortable(); </script> 

Form submitted:

<form action='...' id='faq_form'>   <input type='hidden' name='faqs' id='faqs' />   ... </form> 

Add sorted sequence to form

<script type='text/javascript>   $('#faq_form').submit(function() {     $('#faqs').val($('#faq').sortable('toArray'))   }) </script> 

When form is submitted, field ‘faqs’ will contain comma separated id’s from #faq like this: q1,q3,q10,q11,q2,q100…

Just parse it and save to DB