Re: Bar codes in PHP

"CPT John W. Holmes" 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. You wouldn't really need a special program, just get a scanner that plugs into the keyboard connection and click on the a text box and scan in, the scanner will then fill in the ASCII representation of the bar code. Or at least that is one option... > > > 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: [PHP-DB] 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