save jquery ui-sortable positions to DB

Question

Im trying to replicate the functionality of this page (http://www.kissfm.ro/fresh-top-40/) for a friend who has a small web radio. The site is setup in wordpress fyi.

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Answer 1

According to the Sortable docs we have to prefix the LI's id with some string. Then if we serialize the sortable in the update method we'll get a nice array in php e.g. new_order[]=1&new_order[]=2 etc.

var data = $(this).sortable('serialize');


    
elem 1
    
elem 2
    
elem 3
    
elem 4