Is there a plain PHP implementation for decoding QR codes?
I have a faux-smartphone. One of those phones that parades as a smartphone but that I can't download any apps for, and I want to create an email service to where I can take a picture of a QR code, MMS it to this email, and the email returns what the QR code contains.
However, the only libraries I've been able to find are in Python (and probably C++), neither of which I can access on my limited hosting environment.
Is there a way to read QR codes using only PHP?
There is only one pure PHP QR code decoder. It's working with GD library, but can use also ImageMagick. This PHP QR code reader is ported from ZXing.
https://github.com/khanamiryan/php-qrcode-detector-decoder
I'm not aware of any pure php decoder. Decoding images like this is pretty processor intensive and doing it in a purely interpreted language is challenging.
zxing (http://code.google.com/p/zxing/) provides a decoder implementation in both Java and C++. In theory, it should be possible to link the C++ library as a php extension, though I don't know anything of the mechanics of that. I've done it for Ruby ...
Moreover, zxing does have an online decoder at http://zxing.org/w/decode.jspx. My thinking is that from PHP you can take the image and post it to the webservice and retrieve the decoded data. I don't know the mechanics of making remote web service calls from PHP and how different hosting environments might limit that, though, but it seems reasonable?
If you have the possibility to use a phpextension, php-zbarcode at https://github.com/mkoppanen/php-zbarcode can read qrcodes. It's a wrapper for ZBar from http://zbar.sourceforge.net, which in turn is a LGPL C library for decoding barcodes.
To decode your QR code you have to upload image of QR code and it will show you text inside that code image.
http://www.phpgang.com/how-to-decode-qr-code_344.html
Very easy to do tutorial I hope it helps.
Here is a good example & you can generate online direct QR code too...
there is also php library to implement QR code in your project.
http://phpqrcode.sourceforge.net/