Posted by Martin Mandl - m2m tech support on 02/15/07 19:08

On Feb 15, 7:36 pm, "simulacrakisma" <simulacran.h...@gmail.com>
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.
>
> I have this client that wants to be able to control their web and
> retail inventory from one place (I mean, it's the same inventory).
> That would require being able to have the "registers" be able to scan
> bar coded items and remove them from the database once they are sold.
> I've found lots of different scanners, which is fortunate; however,
> I'm not sure how I would receive input from a USB/serial/etc barcode
> scanner in a PHP web application. Any help? Even a link to a tutorial
> or article on the topic would help. Google is turning up very little
> except lots of products and software packages and I really would
> rather do this myself (unless there's a somewhat professional option
> out there that doesn't look like cat poo).
>
> Thanks!

Dear Simulacrakisma,

there are some extensions for the serial port:

http://www.weberdev.com/get_example-4347.html
http://www.mikrocontroller.net/articles/Ports_benutzen_(PHP)

good luck
Martin

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