Written by I made a video player recently containing a list of videos. My client requested the ability to put them in a custom order. It didn’t take much research to find the functionality in the Script.aculo.us library. The question was, how do I implement it with ColdFusion?
I knew I would need AJAX functionality and, up to this point, I had always used Rob Gonda’s AjaxCFC. With the release of ColdFusion 8, however, Adobe introduced CFAjaxProxy. I’d been looking for an opportunity to give it a try and this turned out to be a perfect fit.
Jake Munson of Yacoblog posted a great introduction to using CFAjaxProxy. Simple and straight to the point. I had it working in no time.
My next stop was a post by Mohammed Irfaan over at the Lynch Consulting Blog which discusses a technique for using ColdFusion to update an underlying table after using Script.aculo.us’s Drag and Drop functionality.
Here’s how I put it all together:
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