Can any one suggest what the problem could be?

Thanks,
Felix

my function order() is not getting called…so the drag and drop is working but not getting saved….

here is my code in the view:

sortable(‘widgets’, array(‘url’=>’order’, ‘before’=>”Element.hide(’status’);”, ‘complete’=>”Element.show(’status’);”)); ?>

set(’status’, ‘Artist Ordering Succesfully Saved!’);

//assign widgets to view sorted by the ‘order’ field
$this->set(‘widgets’, $this->Widget->findAll(null,null,’order’,null,null));

/** Receives ajax request from index **/

}// end of index

function order()
{

//loop through the data sent via the ajax call
foreach ($this->params['form']['widgets'] as $order => $id)
{
$data['Widget']['order'] = $order;

$this->Widget->id = $id;
$this->Widget->saveField(‘order’,$order);
//we have success!

} // foreach loop

} // end of function order

}

i have the drag and drop sorting working but its not saving the order.

in firebug this is what is coming up in the post

widgets[] 2
widgets[] 3

for some reason the ID is coming up empty.. can someone help me?

i have checked the code many times….no idea what the problem could be…

I got it to work by simply adding “,false” at the end of the $javascript->link statements, like this;

if (isset($javascript)) {
echo $javascript->link(’scriptaculous/lib/prototype.js’, false);
echo $javascript->link(’scriptaculous/src/scriptaculous.js’, false);
}

works fine now.

Cheers!

Loren

thks a lot

Thanks for helping the new guy (me)!

This post is very old and probably unusable at this point. CakePHP has changed immensely since I wrote this. I would recommend you learn version 1.2 at this point (it is in RC2) and you’ll have a much easier go of it!

Thanks,

Dustin Weber

I was scratching my head for a bit because I copied some elements of your code which then didn’t work – for anyone having the same issue it is because the single and double quotes were not rendering as ‘normal’ quotes inside my editor and so the strings were breaking. This is on FF3/Mac, don’t know if the same is true of other browsers/OSs

I just had one problem; WP tweaks the output of single and double quotes, so I had to debug some PHP errors before I got it up. Lazy me didn’t read the code thoroughly enough before paste – save – load page…

I’m close. I just created a new list of $ajax-drag() elements with ‘revert’=>true to create the “from” list. I also added ‘containment’=>”['sortable_list','from_list']” to the original sortable.

I can’t figure out how to keep the “from_list” static. It reverts if the element isn’t dragged into the “sortable_list”.

Seems like this should be a common functionality. I think of a shopping cart. I wouldn’t want my catalog entries disappearing when someone drops them into their cart.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,
Troy

@MRashed The sortable id is referring to the unordered list (ul) id of widgets. The widget_{id} is the id for each of the list items (li).

@Mike & Ryan You are able to style the list based on your needs, but here is a little something to help in your css:
ul#widgets{list-style-type:none;}
ul#widgets li{border:1px solid #000; cursor:move;}

@James I am not sure but I think the problem is that you are trying to render in your order function. Also you don’t need all that because in the index function you set your success message, and in your view the status is hidden then when the order function is complete the status is shown.