Re: Magnetic Stripe Reader or Barcode to PHP

If the scanning device hooks into the keyboard somehow it should be easy. I believe that's called a "keyboard wedge". Basically, you scan and it types. My only exposure to this is using one of the old CueCat scanners to index my personal library into a php app I cobbled together. The CueCat hooked in line with the keyboard. You'd bring up the scanning page and an onload Javascript would place the cursor into the "Scan ISBN Here" text box. Scan the book and the input went where it was needed. I believe it also sent an "enter" keystroke which submitted the form. It's been a couple years since I played with it so there might have been some additional software that kicked the "enter". Then you process the data as you would for any other text field submission. It worked well enough to catalog a couple thousand books in a single evening. Hope this helps Matt On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 5:42 PM, Daevid Vincent <daevid@daevid.com> wrote: > So we're opening a new super-club here in Seattle. One of the ideas we'd > like to pursue is that people are assigned a card. This can be a magstripe > card or something with a barcode. Not really sure at the moment which way > to go.