How to Build PHP Barcode Reader on Linux

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Server-side PHP Barcode Reader

Dynamsoft Barcode Reader supports 64-bit PHP from 5.3 to 5.6. Therefore, you need to firstly check the version of PHP that installed on your system:

php -v

In addition to PHP version, you need to know whether the PHP is thread-safe or not:

 php –i | grep Thread

Copy shared libraries of Dynamsoft Barcode Reader to /usr/lib:

sudo cp <Dynamsoft Barcode Reader>/lib/* /usr/lib

Edit php.ini to add following extension path:

extension=<Dynamsoft Barcode Reader>/php/extension/<version>/<ts|nts>/php_DynamsoftBarcodeReader.so

Upload barcode images to a web server with Form:

<form id="uploadForm" method="post" action="readbarcode.php" enctype="multipart/form-data">
    <input type="file" id="upLoadFile" name="upLoadFile" class="ImgLocalPath" />
    <input type="text" readonly="readonly" id="txtUploadFileName" class="radius3" />
    <input type="button" id="btnUploadFile" value="Browse..." class="radius3 ml20"/>
    <input type="submit" id="btnReadBarcode" class="radius3 left ml20"  value="Read Barcode" />

</form>

Detect barcode data on server-side:

<?php
include 'DynamsoftBarcodeReader.php';
ini_set('display_errors',1);
error_reporting(E_ALL);
$post_max_size = ini_get("post_max_size");
$maxsize = return_bytes($post_max_size);

if($_SERVER['CONTENT_LENGTH'] > $maxsize) {
         echo "Post data size is bigger than " . $post_max_size;
         exit;
}

$file = $_FILES["upLoadFile"]["tmp_name"];
if(!empty($file)){
         readBarcode($file);                                         
}
else {
         echo "Fail to upload file.";
}

function readBarcode($path) {
    try {       
        $br = new BarcodeReader();
    } catch (exception $exp) {       
        echo 'Your barcode reader component is not registered correctly. Please refer to ReadMe.txt for details.<br/>';
        exit;
    }

    $br->initLicense('693C401F1CC972A5018B729568B0CDD8');

    try {       
        $br->decodeFile($path);
    } catch(Exception $exp) {
        echo $br->getErrorString() . '<br/>';
        exit;
    }

    $cnt = $br->getBarcodesCount();
    if($cnt > 0) {
        echo 'Total barcode(s) found:' . $cnt . '.<br/>';
        for ($i = 0; $i < $cnt; $i++) {
            $result = $br->getBarcodeResult($i);
             echo ($i+1) . ': ';
             echo "$result->BarcodeFormatString, ";
             echo "$result->BarcodeText<br/>";
        }
    }
    else {
        echo 'No barcodes found.<br/>';
    }   
}
?>

How to Deploy the Sample Code to Apache on Ubuntu

Install php5-curl, apache2 and libapache2-mod-php5:

sudo apt-get install php5-curl apache2 libapache2-mod-php5

Extract the package and copy the project to /var/www/html/:

sudo cp -r DecodeLocalFile /var/www/html

Add extension path to /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini.

Start Apache service:

sudo service apache2 start

Visit http://localhost/DecodeLocalFile/index.php in Firefox or Chrome.

Online Demo & Source Code

Visit PHP Barcode Reader to experience the online demo.

Download the source code.

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