cli-barcode PHP

Generates awesome barcodes from CLI using PHP
This script uses @picqer’s php-barcode-generator to generate barcodes from the command line.
For command line parsing @ulrichsg’s getopt-php is used.

The credits should go mostly to them, since this is a very simple script that uses what they have made.

How to install

The vendor folder is included since I want to be able to just download this package and run it.

You should download the zip or tar ball and put the cli-barcode folder where you want it to be installed.

Then you can run:

./barcode.php --create-bash

To recreate the barcode file with the full path to your installation.

At this point you can run:

sudo make install

To copy the bash executable to /usr/local/bin.
You will need to have make installed for this.

Generating barcodes

Usage is pretty straight forward.

There are 4 required parameters

1. Encoding (barcode type)
2. Output format (png, jpg, svg, html)
3. Barcode string (will become the barcode)
4. Output file (where to save it)

Apart from that you get a few optional parameters

• Width factor for the bars (defaults to 2)
• Height of the bars (defaults to 30)
• Color of the bars (defaults to black)

I find the default settings for these very optimal, since there is usually no problem on resizing the barcodes generated.
The encodings and output formats are case-insenstive.

Help Information from cli

$ barcode --help
Usage: barcode -e <encoding> -f <output_format> [options] <barcode string> <output file>
Options:
  -e, --encoding <bar-type>    Barcode encoding type selection
  -f, --format <file-type>     Output format for the barcode
  -w, --width <points>         Width factor for bars to make wider, defaults to 2
  -h, --height <points>        Total height of the barcode, defaults to 30
  -c, --color <hex-color>      Hex code of the foreground color, defaults to black
  -v, --verbose                Display extra information
  -q, --quiet                  Supress all messages
  --help                       Help Information, including encodings and formats
  --version                    Display version information and exits

Required Options and Parameters:
    -e <encoding>
    -f <output format>
    <input string>
    <output file>

Output Formats:
    HTML
    JPG
    PNG
    SVG

Encodings:
    CODABAR
    CODE_11
    CODE_128
    CODE_128_A
    CODE_128_B
    CODE_128_C
    CODE_39
    CODE_39E
    CODE_39E_CHECKSUM
    CODE_39_CHECKSUM
    CODE_93
    EAN_13
    EAN_2
    EAN_5
    EAN_8
    IMB
    INTERLEAVED_2_5
    INTERLEAVED_2_5_CHECKSUM
    KIX
    MSI
    MSI_CHECKSUM
    PHARMA_CODE
    PHARMA_CODE_TWO_TRACKS
    PLANET
    POSTNET
    RMS4CC
    STANDARD_2_5
    STANDARD_2_5_CHECKSUM
    UPC_A
    UPC_E

Examples:
    barcode -f HTML -e CODE_39 "1234567890" "/tmp/1234567890.html"
    barcode -e CODE_128 -f PNG -c "#888" -w 3 -h 50 "AGREATBAR" "/tmp/AGREATBAR.png"
    barcode "1234567890" "/tmp/mybar.svg" --encoding EAN_13 --format SVG