I apologize, I thought I had specified somewhere that I have reworked my application to use dynamic form inputs, not select lists, but at least now its not a generic text area utilizing faulty and difficult to use delimiters.
So with that said, you mentioned sorting BEFORE the lists are written to the temp file, which is what I am doing. Let me show you my list forms:
<form>
<div id="items">
<fieldset class="product-grouping">
<legend>Item 1</legend>
<div class="vendor" style="padding-left: 30px;"> <span>Vendor: </span>
<input type="text" class="vendor-input" name="vendor" />
<a href="#" class="add-vendor">add vendor</a>
<div class="vendor-products" style="padding-left: 60px;">
<div class="product"> <span>Product: </span>
<input type="text" class="product-input" name="product" />
<a href="#" class="add-product">add product</a> </div>
</div>
</div>
</fieldset>
</div>
<input type="button" id="add-item" value="add item" />
<input type="button" id="submit" value="submit" />
</form>
and yes I now have two loops..nested. One looping through the heading2 form values(vendors), the other loop looping through the list items(products).
<cfsavecontent variable = "vendorProductList">
<cfoutput>
<cfset results = deserializeJSON(url.data)>
<cfloop collection = '#results#' item = 'itemName' >
<cfset item = results[itemName]>
<cfloop collection = '#item.vendors#' item = 'vendorName'>
<h2>#vendorName#</h2>
<ul class="myList">
<cfset productArray = item.vendors[vendorName]>
<cfloop array='#productArray#' index = 'productName'>
<li style="margin-left:30px;">#productName#</li>
</cfloop>
</ul>
</cfloop>
</cfloop>
<script type="text/javascript">
$(function() {
var items = [];
$('h2').each(function() {
items.push($(this).text());
});
items.sort(function(a, b) {
a = a.toLowerCase();
b = b.toLowerCase();
return (a < b ? -1 : (a > b ? +1 : 0));
});
$('h2').each(function(i) {
$(this).text(items);
});
});</script>
</cfoutput>
</cfsavecontent>
<cffile action = "write"
nameconflict = "overwrite"
file = "#expandPath('vendorProductList.cfm')#"
output = "#vendorProductList#">
Once this out put is sent to the vendorProductList.cfm, and I view the file, the lists are not sorted at all. But once the file is called with the include, they somehow are sorted. I assmed this was because as I have it now, the lists are output and THEN sorted, which is saved to the temp file ALONG with the sort function script. But I have tried sorting the form values BEFORE the loops as well.
I hope that clears up a bit. Sorry for the confusion...lol I'm confused enough for the both of us!
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