Here is the code we used at the time: http://dhtmlkitchen.com/scripts/draglib/index.jsp I modified it a bit to meet our needs, if you're doing an open-source project it's free to use. In my experience if you take your time JavaScript can be made to work in any browser. We actually don't use the code anymore, the needs of the application changed, so we went from the drag and drop ordering to a sorting method using arrows to indicate up and down. It is still driven by JavaScript. I never read any books on JavaScript, it's similar syntactically to PHP or any language like that, the big thing is to learn the JavaScript DOM. I just found some good reference pages and learned from there. I have the most useful ones memorized, anything else I'll Google for it. If you can code in PHP JavaScript will be a piece of cake. The advantage of JavaScript over PHP is that it's client side. This means you don't have to do a page reload for each action a user takes. You can sort tracks in your application with PHP but each time a user selects an item to move up you have to submit the page, then re-present the page. With JavaScript the user can reorder all they want, then submit the page once. I then take the list of items in the new order and submit them to the DB. Best of luck... Nate Tobik (412)661-5700 x206 VigilantMinds -----Original Message----- From: Graham Anderson [mailto:grahama@xxxxxxxx] Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2005 2:29 PM To: php-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; Nathan Tobik Subject: Re: NetFlix Drag and Drop Row Ordering thanks for the tip I am pretty unfamilar with javascript.. But for my purposes, I guess I better learn it I am fairly conversant in a couple of languages so hopefully it won't be too bad recommend a good book ? Essentially, I want CMS users to be order their own playlist of multimedia tracks. Is there any reason not to take a javascript approach ? because this would be for a CMS only the javascript does not have to work for EVERY browser.... Out of curiosity, are you still using this approach? Or, was it too problematic ? g -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
