Using MooTools 1.2 For Drag, Drop, Sort, Save

My customers love being able to control their website’s content so I build a lot of administrative control into their website. One administrative control I frequently build is a News control. I allow the customer to add, edit, delete, and sort news items. My customers especially love sorting their articles because of the fashion of which they can sort: drag and drop. Here’s how I do it.

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gues | July 30th, 2008 @ 4:10 pm

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I really like the idea behind the script, but automatically posting the form with javascript on each drop event doesnt work. I couldnt get it to work with your code and your example doesnt seem to work either.

Anton | August 6th, 2008 @ 2:38 pm

@Anton: Updated a form field but didn’t in the PHP. The above should now work.

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