Sorting a repeating region

[quantumphp]

What is the best way to sort in php.

1. There is a list of products stored in mysql each with a unique auto increment ID
2. There is a repeating region (yes created in dreamweaver) don't hate! This repeating region is a simple div that repeats with each product in it's own div.

I've got some ideas on how to sort this. Which would anyone here recommend?

1. Create a sortID that the user can modify through a form
2. Create a drag and drop using PHP and AJAX

Or is there some other standard way to custom sort these products.

Thanks

[Protato]

I'd go with the sort id, with the column headers as links back to the sorted page.

Before I got too into DOM I put togeather the AJAX method, some of my users didn't see the "loading" message, and on longer sorts they would spam the column or assume it was broken. In this case I liked the page refresh because they were assured it was working. Other then that I liked it more.

That said, I've moved to using javascript for this, much cleaner and offloads onto the client.