Snippets/Persistent sort order

Including the below code snippet in your common.js file will enable sortable tables to retain their column sorting states via cookies. This ensures that the tables will appear the same the next time the page is visited. Each sortable table should have a distinct id attribute for its state to be saved in the cookie.

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Persistent sort order
Language(s):	JavaScript
Compatible with:	unknown

$( function() {
    jQuery('.sortable').each( function() {
        var id = jQuery(this).attr('id');
        document.shCookie = getCookie('sortheader-'+id);
        document.sortheaderId = 0;
        jQuery('#'+id+' a.sortheader').each( function() {
            var id = jQuery(this).parent().parent().parent().parent().attr('id');
            var sh = document.sortheaderId++;
            if( sh+100 == document.shCookie ) { ts_resortTable(this); ts_resortTable(this); }
            if( sh == document.shCookie ) { ts_resortTable(this); sh += 100; }
            jQuery(this).bind('click', {id: id, sh: sh}, function(e) {
                setCookie('sortheader-'+e.data.id, e.data.sh, 1);
                e.data.sh += e.data.sh < 100 ? 100 : -100;
            });
        });
    });
});

function setCookie(c_name,value,exdays) {
    var exdate=new Date();
    exdate.setDate(exdate.getDate() + exdays);
    var c_value=escape(value) + ((exdays==null) ? "" : "; expires="+exdate.toUTCString());
    document.cookie=c_name + "=" + c_value;
}

function getCookie(c_name) {
    var i,x,y,ARRcookies=document.cookie.split(";");
    for (i=0;i<ARRcookies.length;i++) {
        x=ARRcookies[i].substr(0,ARRcookies[i].indexOf("="));
        y=ARRcookies[i].substr(ARRcookies[i].indexOf("=")+1);
        x=x.replace(/^\s+|\s+$/g,"");
        if (x==c_name) return unescape(y);
    }
}