Comments on: Using a magnetic card reader with jQuery

By: Jonathan Stoppani

Jonathan Stoppani — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 15:28:26 +0000

Thanks for the feedback!
I should really expand a little the script and wrap it in a jQuery plugin, maybe with a little more documentation too...

By: Nirmal

Nirmal — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 08:34:40 +0000

For someone who is wondering why this code doesn't work as it is, you have to edit the CardReader.js file to specify the correct track end character:

As Garet pointed out, his reader device throws an underscore for track end:
this.track_end = track_end || "_";

But most of the devices in the market decode the track end as a question mark:
this.track_end = track_end || "?";

You must be good to go with this change.

By: Nirmal

Nirmal — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 07:40:21 +0000

Mr. Garet,
Thank you for the simple but powerful code.
I have used it to implement an industrial login and it works great!
Really appreciate your contribution.