You need the bar code scanner on the client side. PHP has nothing to deal with the bar code. I have implemented the bar code system for the online library management system for one reputed school at Chicago. For every book, system is generating the unique id and later on i am exporting these ids and printing in the bar code format. You can find that software by simple google search. Later on librarians are using the bar code scanner, which will pick up the unique id and look up in the database for further processing. I hope this is clear. Let me know if you have any doubt. Regards, Hardik --- "CPT John W. Holmes" <holmes072000@charter.net> wrote: > PHP wouldn't have anything to do with it. Your > barcode should "fill in" a > text area on a web page, which is the submitted to a > PHP file for > processing. You'll need something client site to get > the code from the > scanner to the web page. > > Unless you're talking about a program that acutally > monitors the COM port > that the scanner is plugged into on the server? > > ---John Holmes... > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Norma Ramirez - TECNOSOFT" > <norma.ramirez@tecnosoft.com.co> > To: "lista php" <php-db@lists.php.net> > Sent: Monday, July 28, 2003 3:19 PM > Subject: Bar codes in PHP > > > Hi all, does someone know how to capture or read bar > codes from php? It will > be great if I could do inputs to my database > directly from bar codes in the > products. Ideas??? > Thank´s > Norma Ramirez > Area de Desarrollo Web > norma.ramirez@tecnosoft.com.co > > > > -- > PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
