I need to develop a PHP application that will be generating barcodes and also will have the ability to read those barcodes back.
As my application will be a web based application and underlying technology is PHP which is a server side scripting language, I am feeling that barcode generation will not be an issue but the scanning and reading those barcodes may be a challenge.
Please guide me if its possible to read barcode in a PHP application.
Reading a barcode is usually easy, because barcode readers are usually the same as a normal keyboard, thus writing to the application as if it would be typed by the user. You just need to provide a text field on your page, where the data is entered. The user of course needs a barcode reader.
By adding [Enter] or [Tab] characters to the barcode, you can control to change to the next field or send the form to the server without additional user interaction.