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Date:      Mon, 20 Aug 2007 00:07:40 +0100
From:      Howard Jones <howie@thingy.com>
To:        perikillo <perikillo@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: [freebsd-questions] FreeBSD + PHP + Barcode scanners for Web Application?
Message-ID:  <46C8CD3C.5060704@thingy.com>
In-Reply-To: <51d7a5160708191407t394e8629yd9078e640a20ea4b@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <51d7a5160708191407t394e8629yd9078e640a20ea4b@mail.gmail.com>

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perikillo wrote:
>   Hi people.
>
>    Look we have some applications at work, that use scanners Manufacture by
> Symbol. Those applications were created in Access, but i want to create
> those app for a Web browser, my doubt is:
>
>    Does someone here has a app running from the browser that use bar code
> scanners?
>    Which languages did u use, python, php, other?
>   
A lot of barcode scanners work by generating keycodes (either connected
via an adaptor to the PS/2 connector, or USB) so they should work in
anything really... the one we have at work certainly will just write
into Notepad or whatever has keyboard focus when you hit the scanner's
"Go" button.
>    Did u have problems with fonts?
>   
Huh? For reading barcodes?

For printing them (or displaying in a webpage), there are a bunch of
libraries around that generate images, a quick Google showed up:

   for PHP: http://www.phpclasses.org/browse/package/2176.html
   for command-line (anything):
http://ar.linux.it/software/barcode/barcode.html

Have fun!

Howie



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