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Manually inspecting the price of each purchase, as an alternative to doing a server-side check? That would be the equivalent of being able to change the price associated with a product barcode and asking cashiers to verify the prices for everyone's purchases.

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Ha, I know. I wasn't stating my own opinion there though. Adding in a server-side check seems to be the only way to solve this (Note: My knowledge on this subject is limited), but doing so removes the advantage they have, which is the easy implementation. This would be cool if it worked flawlessly, but then again, it doesn't (yet).

Sigh.. I guess we have a winner between javascript and php now. (I heard a lot of debates recently arguing the javascript would replace php)

Javascript is not really the issue here, some things just shouldn't be done on the client side.

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