Comments on: jQuery Serialize List Plugin

By: FAk

FAk — Sun, 06 Feb 2011 08:23:47 +0000

It’s a pity, that when you have a LI item, you cannot nest another LI into it, probably a disadvantage of sortable() right?

By: Michael Botsko

Michael Botsko — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 17:31:04 +0000

Thanks! A fix has been pushed to github.

By: MGiesbers

MGiesbers — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 11:28:08 +0000

A small bug found in this plugin, the line where your recursive call the serializelist function to append the children to the serialized string.

line nr 46 (currently):
serialStr += $(this).serializelist({‘prepend’: child_base, ‘is_child’: true});

line nr 46 (should be):
serialStr += $(this).serializelist({‘prepend’: child_base, ‘is_child’: true, ‘attributes’:opts.attributes});

By: DrakeData

DrakeData — Sat, 02 Oct 2010 09:20:26 +0000

or if you need to serialize nested lists, you might want to give http://plugins.jquery.com/project/serializeTree a try

By: Michael Botsko

Michael Botsko — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 15:34:05 +0000

Why not just use the unserialize function itself?

By: Ryan

Ryan — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 16:07:49 +0000

Nevermind. After some researching found
parse_str($_POST['sort_page'], $unserialized);
Printing the $unserialized gives me the array.

Thanks!

By: Ryan

Ryan — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 16:00:27 +0000

Do you think you could post a snippet of the PHP you are using to convert this into a standard array?

PHP just outputs a huge string like
&ul[0][id]=page_2&ul[0][class]=&ul[1][id]=page_4&ul[1][class]=sitemap_liOpen&ul[1][children][0][id]

Thanks!

By: Michael Botsko

Michael Botsko — Thu, 20 May 2010 15:01:28 +0000

I’m using PHP on the backend which will properly convert the parameters into an array which I can then use internally. If your backend language doesn’t automatically convert that into a usable object or array, I’m sure there are code samples out there. Once it’s converted into an array, it’s just a matter of iterating over those elements.

By: Brett

Brett — Thu, 20 May 2010 04:04:03 +0000

This is fantastic, but with the string your plugin provides, how to do you handle that in the backend to insert the ordering in the database?