Posted by simulacrakisma on 02/21/07 15:18

Thanks!

I guess more what I'm asking is exactly what you've put forth - how
would I access that input in PHP? I use PHP for the web so I have no
idea what kind of array the info gathered from a USB device would be
stored in. Any clues?

On Feb 15, 2:30 pm, Kenneth Downs <knode.wants.t...@see.sigblock>
wrote:
> simulacrakisma wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
>
> > Thanks in advance for reading this.
>
> > I'm not a novice, but I'm not a PHP pro, either, nor a programming
> > expert of any kind, so I'm kind of trying to find a solution that
> > works for a job that I'm working on.
>
> A scanner just simulates entry from the keyboard. If the barcode is
> '00113442' and they scan it, it will be like the user typed '00113442' at
> the keyboard.
>
> The trick is in designing the screen so that it can gracefully handle
> situations where a person scans and the screen was not expecting it, stuff
> like that.
>
> --
> Kenneth Downs
> Secure Data Software, Inc.
> (Ken)nneth@(Sec)ure(Dat)a(.com)

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