in reply to Re^2: perl shopping cart
in thread perl shopping cart

With things like that, the values that are getting passed around should be for front-end display only - the only really important information that needs to be passed back is what item you want and how many. You should already know what items cost so when you recieve an order you can bill accordingly.

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Re^4: perl shopping cart
by Golo (Friar) on Oct 27, 2004 at 13:37 UTC
    But then, why would one use easy manipulatable formvalues for frontend display if you create the actual order based on the real price anyways?
    That sounds like a lot of duplicate work, why not simply take and calc the prices from the authorative source?
    This cart seems to use the hidden formvalues to do it's (server-side) calculations (total, tax, etc.)
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