Dynamically generating a QR code with PHP

It's worth adding that, in addition to the QR codes library posted by @abaumg, Google provides a QR Codes API QR Codes APImany thanks to @Toukakoukan for the link update.

To use this , basically:

https://chart.googleapis.com/chart?chs=300x300&cht=qr&chl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F&choe=UTF-8
  • 300x300 is the size of the QR image you want to generate,
  • the chl is the url-encoded string you want to change into a QR code, and
  • the choe is the (optional) encoding.

The link, above, gives more detail, but to use it just have the src of an image point to the manipulated value, like so:

<img src="https://chart.googleapis.com/chart?chs=300x300&cht=qr&chl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F&choe=UTF-8" title="Link to Google.com" />

Demo:


The phpqrcode library is really fast to configure and the API documentation is easy to understand.

In addition to abaumg's answer I have attached 2 examples in PHP from http://phpqrcode.sourceforge.net/examples/index.php

1. QR code encoder

first include the library from your local path

include('../qrlib.php');

then to output the image directly as PNG stream do for example:

QRcode::png('your texte here...');

to save the result locally as a PNG image:

$tempDir = EXAMPLE_TMP_SERVERPATH;

$codeContents = 'your message here...';

$fileName = 'qrcode_name.png';

$pngAbsoluteFilePath = $tempDir.$fileName;
$urlRelativeFilePath = EXAMPLE_TMP_URLRELPATH.$fileName;

QRcode::png($codeContents, $pngAbsoluteFilePath);

2. QR code decoder

See also the zxing decoder:

http://zxing.org/w/decode.jspx

Pretty useful to check the output.

3. List of Data format

A list of data format you can use in your QR code according to the data type :

  • Website URL: http://stackoverflow.com (including the protocole http://)
  • email address: mailto:[email protected]
  • Telephone Number: +16365553344 (including country code)
  • SMS Message: smsto:number:message
  • MMS Message: mms:number:subject
  • YouTube Video: youtube://ID (may work on iPhone, not standardized)

The easiest way to generate QR codes with PHP is the phpqrcode library.

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