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by ryduh 3239 days ago
Hi s1pml3, yes, it's possible. Check out https://jsfiddle.net/KurtWM/tgeWn/

phppointofsale.com uses that code. Check out their demo. They swiping cards and breaking out the code into separate input fields.
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s1mpl3 3239 days ago
Interesting, that's really useful. But, assuming I have MagTek connected via USB to the computer, how does this code "listen" for the swipe? It looks like it can handle parsing the data just fine, but my question is how to get the data from the swipe into the javascript for parsing
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ryduh 3239 days ago
The MagTek reader acts as a USB HID (aka a keyboard). When the cursor focus is put on a text field and you swipe a card, the MagTek device acts as if someone typed each character into the field. Then the javascript detects that and parses it out
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s1mpl3 3239 days ago
omg i see. That makes a lot of sense. Will test this out. Thanks a lot :)
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