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Radio buttons and checkboxes. Prevent changing of the value attribute

So you have a checkbox or a radio button with a predifined value to be sent to the database:

<input name="statement" type="radio" value="AWENSOME">

But someone or a script, with bad intention can easily change the value of your checkbox/radio button with for example a basic "browser page inspect" and then send other value to the databse. For example:

<input name="statement" type="radio" value="NOT SO AWENSOME! STUPID">

How can one prevent that guys? Thank you.

Solution

  • Maybe something like this in your model would help if your are using php:

    if ($data['statement'] == 'AWENSOME' || $data['statement'] == 'FOOBAR' )
{
   $statement = $data['statement'];
} else
{
   // abort the app or return an error to the user
}