In a project linked to off of the del.icio.us PHP feed today, GregPhoto.net has a new tutorial and wrapper class for working with the Scriptaculous sortables.

Scriptaculous is one of many great new JavaScript libraries created to answer the call for well written 'Web 2.0' JavaScript libraries. Written by Thomas Fuchs, scriptaculous has many features that can be used in AJAX-ified applications, drag-and-drop effects, and a whole slew of visual effects.

The drag-and-drop effects, most notably the sortables, caught my eye because the look great, they are so easy to implement, and they're just so much nicer than the standard listbox with up/down arrows that we see in most of today's applications and administration tools.

The class makes it easy to create this handy sorting method, including lots of examples along the way - sorting divs, images, and even inside a float for more than a single dimension of sorting (up/down and left right).