I think you mean that you want to display the total as text but have the total on the
form hidden so they can't edit it (and give themselves a discount), you can use a
hidden form field, sessions or cookies.
<input type="hidden" value="xxxx" name="total">
Paul Roberts
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----- Original Message -----
From: "wm" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2002 1:36 AM
Subject: [PHP] secure form handling
> hi,
>
> i'm fairly new to this.
>
> what i want to do is use a form so the user can specify a few different
> choices
> of things they want to buy. maybe a few radio buttons with dollar
> amounts and
> then possibly a couple of quantity fields for items.
>
> this can then be passed to a script and total added up etc. and the user
>
> can input
> their billing data. what i don't want is for the user to be able to see
> the amount of
> the transaction in the source code in a hidden field.
>
> how do i hide this data while still passing it to the credit card script
>
> along with all
> the other info?
>
> thanks.
>
>
>
>
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