Oke so i found this plugin: http://ludo.cubicphuse.nl/jquery-plugins/treeTable/doc/index.html#example-1
this uses tables and allows it to be nested.
now i just need to sort it and post submit the table elements with a parent id so i can save it to the database.
I hope this helps someone else.
so this is what i came up with.
I don't want more then 2 levels ( only parent and childs ) so i changed it to let parents only accept childs, and not made parents draggable.
<html>
<head>
<link href="jquery.treeTable.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<script type="text/javascript" src="jquery.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="jquery-ui.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="jquery.treeTable.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function() {
$("#dragndrop").treeTable();
// Drag & Drop Code
$("#dragndrop .child").draggable({
helper: "clone",
opacity: .75,
refreshPositions: true, // Performance?
revert: "invalid",
revertDuration: 300,
scroll: true
}
);
$("#dragndrop .parent").each(function() {
$($(this).parents("tr")[0]).droppable({
accept: ".child",
drop: function(e, ui) {
$($(ui.draggable).parents("tr")[0]).appendBranchTo(this);
setNewParent($($(ui.draggable).parents("tr")[0]).attr("id"), $(this).attr("id"));
},
hoverClass: "accept",
over: function(e, ui) {
if(this.id != $(ui.draggable.parents("tr")[0]).id && !$(this).is(".expanded")) {
$(this).expand();
}
}
});
});
function setNewParent(child, parent)
{
// do ajax call here
alert(child);
alert(parent);
}
});
</script>
</head>
<body>
<table id="dragndrop">
<thead>
<tr>
<th>Title</th>
<th>Size</th>
<th>Kind</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr id="node-1">
<td><span class="parent">CHANGELOG</span></td>
<td>4 KB</td>
<td>Parent</td>
</tr>
<tr id="node-3" class="child-of-node-1">
<td><span class="child">images</span></td>
<td>--</td>
<td>child</td>
</tr>
<tr id="node-2">
<td><span class="parent">doc</span></td>
<td>--</td>
<td>Parent</td>
</tr>
<tr id="node-4" class="child-of-node-2">
<td><span class="child">bg-table-thead.png</span></td>
<td>52 KB</td>
<td>child</td>
</tr>
<tr id="node-5" class="child-of-node-2">
<td><span class="child">folder.png</span></td>
<td>4 KB</td>
<td>child</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</body>
To make the whole table sortable you can use jquerty's .sortable() function, but i left that out of here to make it more clear.