becquerel / barcodes

Bocian Barcode Generator

• Simple PHP app based on Lumen framework to generate barcodes

Installation

• run docker-compose up and wait for installation to finish
• run docker-compose exec php composer install to install dependencies
• application should now run on http://localhost:8888
• if you want to change the port the app responds on, update the docker-compose.yml file accordingly

Usage

• The app can display barcodes in three main formats - HTML, JPG and PNG

HTML

if you want to get a HTML representation of a barcode, the route would be
http://localhost:8888/{BARCODE} where {BARCODE} would be the actual barcode you want to print out. App will generate a HTML (bunch of DIV elements) that put together will compose an actual barcode

JPG, PNG

If you want to return barcode in image format, all you need to do is to attach a .jpg or .png suffix/extension to the previous route. App will then return only an image data with a corresponding content type.

http://localhost:8888/{BARCODE}.png
http://localhost:8888/{BARCODE}.jpg

This can be useful when you need to display the barcode somewhere in the HTML - you can just link to the barcode source, without having to generate the barcode yourself:

<img src="http://localhost:8888/UPC1123654.jpg" />