[wp-hackers] Drag and drop panels in plugin's page

[Helen Hou-Sandi]

I'd love to see a working example if you're willing to share! I'm sure I
could poke around and figure it out, but can't hurt to ask :)

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Helen Hou-Sandi
http://www.helenhousandi.com



On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 4:14 PM, Dino Termini <dino at duechiacchiere.it>wrote:

> Actually it turns out Wp already sends the positions back to the server
> (but you have to provide a valid nounce via hidden input field)... God bless
> those who developed Live Http Headers :) So it's just a matter of reading
> the information from the database and displaying your panels accordingly
> (foreach... Switch)
>
> Please let me know if you have questions...
>
> Dino
>
> On May 18, 2011, at 10:02 AM, Helen Hou-Sandi <helen.y.hou at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > I hadn't gotten around to the store in DB part yet (would love to hear
> how
> > you're doing it), but this is what I've got for expand/collapse and
> > draggable on a custom panel (a Help/Instructions bit for a client in my
> > case). Don't want to guarantee everything I've done is best practice,
> though
> > :)
> >
> > function yourprefix_admin_menu() {
> > // help page menu item
> > $help_page = add_dashboard_page( 'Help and Instructions', 'Help and
> > Instructions', 'edit_posts', 'instructions', 'yourprefix_help_page');
> > add_action('load-'.$help_page, 'yourprefix_help_page_scripts');
> > }
> > add_action('admin_menu', 'yourprefix_admin_menu');
> >
> > function yourprefix_help_page_scripts() {
> > wp_enqueue_style('dashboard');
> > wp_enqueue_script('postbox');
> > wp_enqueue_script('dashboard');
> > }
> >
> > // help page output
> > function yourprefix_help_page() {
> > echo '<div class="wrap">
> > <h2>Help and Instructions for www.yourdomain.com</h2>
> > <div class="postbox-container" style="width:80%">
> > <div class="metabox-holder">
> > <div class="meta-box-sortables">
> > <div id="edit-pages" class="postbox">
> > <div class="handlediv" title="Click to toggle"><br /></div>
> > <h3 class="hndle"><span>Editing Pages</span></h3>
> > <div class="inside">
> > <p>This is where information about editing pages would go.</p>
> > </div><!-- .inside -->
> > </div><!-- #edit-pages -->
> > <div id="add-media" class="postbox">
> > <div class="handlediv" title="Click to toggle"><br /></div>
> > <h3 class="hndle"><span>Adding Media</span></h3>
> > <div class="inside">
> > <p>This is where information about adding media would go.</p>
> > </div><!-- .inside -->
> > </div><!-- #add-media -->
> > </div><!-- .meta-box-sortables -->
> > </div><!-- .metabox-holder -->
> > </div><!-- .postbox-container -->
> > </div><!-- .wrap -->
> > ';
> > }
> >
> >
> > --
> > Helen Hou-Sandi
> > http://www.helenhousandi.com
> >
> >
> >
> > On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 9:01 AM, Andy Charrington-Wilden <
> > andycharrington at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Checkout the classes on the widgets page. Once you enque the same
> scripts
> >> you can have it act the same way as the widgets page. I'm not at my
> computer
> >> right now but essentially you're looking for 3 things in the widgets
> page.
> >> 1. The class that defines an area where something can be dragged.
> >> 2. The class that defines something as draggable
> >> 3. The correct scripts to enque.
> >>
> >> I would really like to know how you get on. :-)
> >>
> >> Sent from my iPhone
> >>
> >> On 18 May 2011, at 13:46, Dino Termini <dino at duechiacchiere.it> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Hi all,
> >>>
> >>> one of the plugins I've developed has a layout made of small panels,
> >> something similar to Wordpress Dashboard. I would like to implement the
> same
> >> drag and drop feature, to move those panels around and store their
> position
> >> in the database. I've already figured out the 'store in the DB' part,
> but I
> >> can't seem to be able to leverage the existing JQuery libraries to
> enable
> >> this functionality. Any ideas on how to implement this?
> >>>
> >>> Thanks,
> >>> Dino.
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