scriptaculous sortable own serialize.

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Hey guys i found a great little article about creating a portal front end with portables and dropables  and it has this code to serialize the positions but i want to have the code that actually save the position on the same page.  and i am a little new to to all this. how would i change this code to allow it to post back to the samepage.

 

Sortable.create(sortable, { 
  /* Previously mentioned options here */
  onUpdate: function (container) {
    if (container.id == 'portal-column-block-list') {
      return; // no need to save block list state.
    }
    var url = 'http://www.example.com/portal/save';
    var postBody = container.id + ':';
    var blocks = document.getElementsByClassName(
      'block', container
    );
    postBody += blocks.pluck('id').join(',');
    postBody = 'value=' + escape(postBody);

    new Ajax.Request(url, {
        method: 'post',
        postBody: postBody
      }
    );
  }
});
};

 

what i want to do is save it as a cookie so as well as a database. or if what i am trying to do does not achieve that could you point me in the direction to find out how to do that.