QR Code Generator

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Last Post: November 18, 2011   (RSS)

By robin - May 3, 2011

Hey all

I've posted a new plugin to the User Submitted add-ons site. It's called QR Code Generator.

The plugin makes it easy to generate a QR Code for transmitting text, urls, contacts, events, etc. from your CMS Builder powered website.

http://www.interactivetools.com/add-ons/?user_submitted=1

I hope you find it useful,
Robin
Robin
Programmer
interactivetools.com

Re: [robin] QR Code Generator

By gkornbluth - May 3, 2011

Hi Robin,

I just excitedly installed your QR Code Generator (which I think is a really cool idea for a plugin. Thank you for creating it!).

I hope you can help me with a little implementation problem I'm having.

Using the url.php example code, I generated a QR code of the URL http://www.example.com

When I try to decode the generated QR code with QR droid, I get http://http%3A%2F%2Fwww.example.com

If I remove the http:// from the example.com URL, I get the error - qrCode: Invalid value for option 'url'!

I’ve attached the QR Code image.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Jerry Kornbluth
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Re: [gkornbluth] QR Code Generator

By sidcam - May 4, 2011

Thanks for sharing!

I too had to immediately drop everything and test it out and am getting the same results (AWSOME IDEA, HOWEVER). All I did was cut and pasted your examples onto a test page for a contact, website and email and all 3 had issues.

What it's doing is it's generating symbols as Unicode. The %3A is : and the %2F is /

I've tried two phones with different readers so far. I'll try to snag someone else's phone tomorrow to see if I get the same results with a different platform.

AGAIN THANKS FOR SHARING THIS!!!

Sid

Re: [Toledoh] QR Code Generator

By gkornbluth - May 4, 2011

Hi Tim,

Doing a Google search on:

tracking usage with qr codes

brings up lots of stuff.

Jerry Kornbluth
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Re: [robin] QR Code Generator

By Dave - May 4, 2011

Hi everybody,

There's also a great article here that Kenny pointed me to:
http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/how-qr-codes-can-grow-your-business/

Let us know how you use QR Codes and any additional code content types you'd like supported.

Thanks!
Dave Edis - Senior Developer
interactivetools.com

Re: [gkornbluth] QR Code Generator

By robin - May 4, 2011 - edited: May 4, 2011

Hey,

I've made a small change to the plugin to correct the problem Jerry discovered with " http://".

The new version is available at the add-ons site.

http://www.interactivetools.com/add-ons/?user_submitted=1

Thanks,
Robin
Robin
Programmer
interactivetools.com

Re: [robin] QR Code Generator

By gkornbluth - May 4, 2011

Thank you Robin,

Works much better now.

Jerry Kornbluth
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Re: [robin] QR Code Generator

By gkornbluth - May 5, 2011

Hi all,

I’m trying to create a viewer that shows the QR codes for the detail pages for a number of records in a multi-record section called “reflections” but I’m stuck on how to append the specific record number to the url string.

Here’s the code I’m using. The problem area is in red:
<table>
<tr>
<?php foreach ($reflectionsRecords as $record): ?>
<?php foreach ($record['image'] as $upload): ?>
<?php $num = $record['num'] ?>
<td align="center" valign="bottom"><img src="<?php echo $upload['thumbUrlPath'] ?>" width="<?php echo $upload['thumbWidth'] ?>" height="<?php echo $upload['thumbHeight']?>" />
&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;
<?php
echo qrCode(array(
'type' => 'url',
'size' => '150',
'url' => 'http://www.elleschorrphotography.com/gallery5detail.php?(append record number here)'
));
?>

<br />
<?php echo $record['title'] ?><br />This is the record number: <?php echo $num ?><br /><hr /><br />
</td>
<?php $maxCols=2; if (@++$count % $maxCols == 0): ?></tr><tr><?php endif; ?>
<?php endforeach ?>
<?php endforeach ?>
</tr>
</table>

Any help appreciated.

Thanks,

Jerry Kornbluth
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Re: [gkornbluth] QR Code Generator

By robin - May 5, 2011

Hey Jerry,

This should do the trick:
<?php
echo qrCode(array(
'type' => 'url',
'size' => '150',
'url' => 'http://www.elleschorrphotography.com/gallery5detail.php?' . $num
));
?>
Alternatively, if you use double quotes you can put the variable directly in the string:
<?php
echo qrCode(array(
'type' => 'url',
'size' => '150',
'url' => "http://www.elleschorrphotography.com/gallery5detail.php?$num"
));
?>

Hope that helps,
Robin
Robin
Programmer
interactivetools.com