[FX.php List] Scriptaculous and FX.PHP

[Alex Gates]

Hi everyone-

Have any of you ever used the Scriptaculous JavaScript library with 
fx.php on any web applications? http://script.aculo.us/
If you aren't familiar with Scriptaculous, it contains all sorts of 
visual effects and a bunch of different drag-and-drop effects.
The visual effects were quite simple to implement, but now I'm quite 
interested in using the drag-and-drop effects.

I found a page by Greg Neustaetter that contains a PHP wrapper he wrote 
to work with the scriptaculous sortables.
http://www.gregphoto.net/sortable/

 From Mr. Neustaetter's site: "My PHP class has a function that knows 
how to understand the scriptaculous serialized string and translates it 
into a simple PHP array with the items and there order. Once I have 
this, it's easy to do things like submit the new order to a database. If 
you click the submit button, you can see the update statements I would 
send to the database. Clicking the 'View Serialized Lists' will fill the 
inputs with the serialized lists."

I'd like to do something like this on a project I'm working on.  First, 
I want the user to be able to define a set of "categories." (around 8) 
Then, I'd like to present these "categories" in a drag-and-droppable 
list that the user can arrange in any way they desire - then submit the 
new order through a submit button.

Do any of you have any experience with this?

There are many brilliant minds on this list - so if any of you have any 
experience doing something like this or may be able to help brainstorm a 
way to use this with fx.php, that would be really great.

Thanks in advance!

Alex