Steve wrote:
> To accommodate this, our (myself and the other programmer) thought was to use a bar
> code scanner to get the product info into the system to cut down on
> errors and save time.

Just in case you're forging ahead under a misconception, barcodes don't
actually store information about the product they're on. They simply
contain numbers (or sometimes alphanumeric characters, in the case of
Code 39 for example) which refer to product details already stored in a
database of some sort. This means that you're not going to have a magic
time-saving solution to putting information into the system in the first
place.

Apologies if that's obvious!

I've used barcodes in a small library system written in PHP, and printed
them using FPDF - available at http://www.fpdf.org. There are some neat
extension classes to create labels, too.

For actually creating barcodes in PHP, you might want to have a look at:

http://www.mribti.com/barcode/

http://www.ashberg.de/php-barcode/

Ed