Detect barcode type about php-barcode-generator HOT 4 CLOSED

Well, there are a lot of options with this library in barcode types. A lot of strings can be handled by 30-50% of all methods in this package.

You only want the distinction between UPC and EAN, which is probably a simple if statement. I don't think it is something that this library should do at this moment.

Will keep this use case in mind though. Thanks for your explanation.

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Thanks @gastongr

Could you give me a concrete example of the situation?

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For example in retail, some articles might have a UPC barcode and some EAN.
If you had to list all the articles along with the corresponding barcode image, it would be good to be able to use

foreach ($articles as $article) {
    echo $generator->getBarcode($article->barcode);
}

That is, call getBarcode() without knowing the barcode type in advance.

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Maybe the autodetection could be taken from https://github.com/violuke/php-barcodes, wich detects the barcode type given a barcode string. Just a suggestion though.

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