jQuery: What to do with the list that sortable('serialize') returns?

Question

With jQuery I\'m retrieving positions of a sortable list using \'serialize\', like this:

var order = $(\'ul\').sortable(\'serialize\');

The vari

Answer 1

Solution

I have created my own solution by manipulating sortable('serialize'). I have simplified it by using jquery functions, and then posted it to php url for updating order of list in the database. Have a look at my code.

$( "#covercast_sortable" ).sortable({
        update : function () { 
            var order = $('#covercast_sortable').sortable('serialize',{key:'string'}); 
            // order var gives something like string=3&string=2&string=1
            var ar = order.split('&');
            var i = 0;
            var str = '';
            for(i;i<ar.length;i++){
                if(str != "") { str += ','; }
                // slice is used to remove 'sting=' from every value of var ar
                str += ar[i].slice(7);
            }
            // here value of str is 3,2,1 with respect to order variable
            $.ajax({
                type: "POST",
                url: 'myURL.php',
                data: 'order=' + str,
                cache: false,
                success: function (data) {
                    console.log(data);
                }
            });
        }
    });

Cheers

Answer 2

var order = $('#projects ul').sortable('toArray'});

this might work too ;)