sortable list w/php ajax

Anyone modify the scripts at
http://www.phpriot.com/d/articles/client-side/sortable-lists -with-php-and-ajax/index.html?
I'm just looking to include more fields in the listing and possibly in
tables. An option to move one at a time to the top of the list by
clicking a button on each line would be nice. I've got the script to
work, just not with multiple fields and the other additions.

The parts that would probably need the changes are:

$books = array();
while ($row = mysql_fetch_object($result)) {
$books[$row->tablekey] = $row->title;
}
return $books;

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(builds the array) and
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$title) { ?>