I need to read the span value and insert into database in php
<span class="GrandTotal">0.00</span>
gangachana 0 Newbie Poster
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Jump to PostDo you want to do this via ajax/javascript or via a traditional form posting?
Jump to PostI aksed you an either or question.
Eg do you want tea of coffee?
You answered yes - do you see how that causes me a problem?
Jump to PostOk and is the span content being changed somehow after the page is loaded?
Jump to PostGood point about security DA. Even normal forms can be spoofed and depending on the use case, the arithmetic should be done on the server, not taken from a form. Using JS to give the user feedback is fine though. All input must be treated as suspect. As added security, …
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DaveAmour 160 Mmmmmm beer Featured Poster
Do you want to do this via ajax/javascript or via a traditional form posting?
gangachana 0 Newbie Poster
yeah sure
DaveAmour 160 Mmmmmm beer Featured Poster
I aksed you an either or question.
Eg do you want tea of coffee?
You answered yes - do you see how that causes me a problem?
gangachana 0 Newbie Poster
Oh sorry. I can do with ajax/javascript.
DaveAmour 160 Mmmmmm beer Featured Poster
Ok and is the span content being changed somehow after the page is loaded?
gangachana 0 Newbie Poster
yes. It's have a dynamic value which is changed when the amount is changed.
DaveAmour 160 Mmmmmm beer Featured Poster
Ok then you use some javascript to read its value and make an ajax call to update it on the server.
If this is the only item on the page with a class of GrandTotal I would possibly give it id="GrandTotal" instead.
You can then access that via script and send it to a server side method to insert it into the database via ajax. Do you do any other ajax in your app?
gangachana 0 Newbie Poster
i do. I used ajax for fetcing the data from the database
phoenix254 0 Junior Poster
how ??
phoenix254 0 Junior Poster
DaveAmour 160 Mmmmmm beer Featured Poster
Another thought about security - you realise that a user can easily change the value themselves - this isn't a real ecommerce site or anything like that is it?
How can you use ajax? Depends - have you used it elswhere on your site yet?
DaveAmour 160 Mmmmmm beer Featured Poster
Ok so lets break this down one thing at a time. Firstly how/when do you want this code to be invoked? Also what style of Ajax are you using - hand written with jquery, some kind of other library maybe?
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Good point about security DA. Even normal forms can be spoofed and depending on the use case, the arithmetic should be done on the server, not taken from a form. Using JS to give the user feedback is fine though. All input must be treated as suspect. As added security, remember to use tokens to guard against CSRF.
mattster 195 Practically a Master Poster Featured Poster
Is the span tag even likely to change CSS class? Because if not, why are you storing the whole tag? Why not just the time (and class)?
Good practice not to store unnecissary stuff in your DB when it can be done later.
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