Problem with ERP system barcode generation

[aqeel]

hi friends i am currently working on an ERP system , this is my first experience
and i dont have any idea to generate the barcode. i want to generate barcode images which will be printed in bulk. I tried many codes but conceptually im blank about the flow of the generation of barcode images from barcode in php so please anyone can help me about some useful link about the documentation of barcode generation in php i'll be extremely thankful.

best regards
aqeel

[Beverleyh]

I used to prepare, programme and generate barcode labels for industrial kanban systems and a barcode is just a font that converts a series of characters into bars - think of it like a stripey version of the wingdings fonts.

I think the font we used was 'code39'.

You can devise the serial code that will be converted to bars anyway you want but of course there needs to be some logic to it.

The convention I used was something like;
Customer account (Big Ds. Builders = 'BD')
Product (high tensile zinc plated set screw = '8SSZ')
Product size (12mm diameter X 180mm long = '012180')
Final serial code = BD8SSZ012180

These serial codes would be recorded on an Éxcel spreadsheet and a extra column would format the codes to bars using the bar code font.

Of course you also need a barcode scanner programmed with the same barcode font to so it can understand what the bars mean and reverse the bars to the original serial codes.

In all, you'll probably need to research barcode fonts, scanner and scanner software package bundles to get something that works nicely together.

Hope that helps

[Beverleyh]

http://www.nationalbarcode.com/info/what-are-barcode-fonts.html

[aqeel]

Thanks a lot Beverleyh

regards
aqeel