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Barcode Scanners, MySQL and PHP

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Feb 02.2005

Well, I’m not sure if this is the correct forum to post, but since I’m looking to create a php interface that uses a MySQL database, I figured I’d start here. What I’m looking for is if anyone knows of current barscanning software that can communicate with a MySQL database. Specifically, we want to be able to print out cards with a bar code and give them to customers. When that barcode is scanned, it tells the person how many “points” they’ve earned. Does anyone know about this?

Thanks,
Jaelan

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@ShrineDesignsFeb 02.2005 — i doubt there is anything barcode applications that use mysql, any barcode application would most likily be windows/dos based, so a good chance, if any, the sql engine would be odbc or access
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@rspeedFeb 03.2005 — At my last job (retail, woo!) the barcode scanners we used simply acted to the system as a keyboard. You would scan the barcode and it would simply type the numbers it read and add a carriage return at the end.

You could create a simple form in PHP to read the data, but you'd be working out of a web browser the whole time.

Other than that you could possibly build a simple application that would act as a front end. Depending on the platform you could probably do well using VB (Windows) or Python (OS X or UNIX).
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@ShrineDesignsFeb 03.2005 — php can be run on the command-line, or with ActiveScript
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