Description of shipped barcodes

You will find below detailed information about all barcode types shipped by default with Zend Framework.

Zend\Barcode\Object\Error

This barcode is a special case. It is internally used to automatically render an exception caught by the Zend\Barcode component.

Zend\Barcode\Object\Code128

• Name: Code 128
• Allowed characters: the complete ASCII-character set
• Checksum: optional (modulo 103)
• Length: variable

There are no particular options for this barcode.

Zend\Barcode\Object\Codabar

• Name: Codabar (or Code 2 of 7)
• Allowed characters:‘0123456789-$:/.+’ with ‘ABCD’ as start and stop characters
• Checksum: none
• Length: variable

There are no particular options for this barcode.

Zend\Barcode\Object\Code25

• Name: Code 25 (or Code 2 of 5 or Code 25 Industrial)
• Allowed characters:‘0123456789’
• Checksum: optional (modulo 10)
• Length: variable

There are no particular options for this barcode.

Zend\Barcode\Object\Code25interleaved

This barcode extends Zend\Barcode\Object\Code25 (Code 2 of 5), and has the same particulars and options, and adds the following:

• Name: Code 2 of 5 Interleaved
• Allowed characters:‘0123456789’
• Checksum: optional (modulo 10)
• Length: variable (always even number of characters)

Available options include:

Zend\Barcode\Object\Code25interleaved Options

Option	Data Type	Default Value	Description
withBearerBars	Boolean	FALSE	Draw a thick bar at the top and the bottom of the barcode.

Note

If the number of characters is not even, Zend\Barcode\Object\Code25interleaved will automatically prepend the missing zero to the barcode text.

Zend\Barcode\Object\Ean2

This barcode extends Zend\Barcode\Object\Ean5 (EAN 5), and has the same particulars and options, and adds the following:

• Name: EAN-2
• Allowed characters:‘0123456789’
• Checksum: only use internally but not displayed
• Length: 2 characters

There are no particular options for this barcode.

Note

If the number of characters is lower than 2, Zend\Barcode\Object\Ean2 will automatically prepend the missing zero to the barcode text.

Zend\Barcode\Object\Ean5

This barcode extends Zend\Barcode\Object\Ean13 (EAN 13), and has the same particulars and options, and adds the following:

• Name: EAN-5
• Allowed characters:‘0123456789’
• Checksum: only use internally but not displayed
• Length: 5 characters

There are no particular options for this barcode.

Note

If the number of characters is lower than 5, Zend\Barcode\Object\Ean5 will automatically prepend the missing zero to the barcode text.

Zend\Barcode\Object\Ean8

This barcode extends Zend\Barcode\Object\Ean13 (EAN 13), and has the same particulars and options, and adds the following:

• Name: EAN-8
• Allowed characters:‘0123456789’
• Checksum: mandatory (modulo 10)
• Length: 8 characters (including checksum)

There are no particular options for this barcode.

Note

If the number of characters is lower than 8, Zend\Barcode\Object\Ean8 will automatically prepend the missing zero to the barcode text.

Zend\Barcode\Object\Ean13

• Name: EAN-13
• Allowed characters:‘0123456789’
• Checksum: mandatory (modulo 10)
• Length: 13 characters (including checksum)

There are no particular options for this barcode.

Note

If the number of characters is lower than 13, Zend\Barcode\Object\Ean13 will automatically prepend the missing zero to the barcode text.

The option withQuietZones has no effect with this barcode.

Zend\Barcode\Object\Code39

• Name: Code 39
• Allowed characters:‘0123456789ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ -.$/+%’
• Checksum: optional (modulo 43)
• Length: variable

Note

Zend\Barcode\Object\Code39 will automatically add the start and stop characters (‘*’) for you.

There are no particular options for this barcode.

Zend\Barcode\Object\Identcode

This barcode extends Zend\Barcode\Object\Code25interleaved (Code 2 of 5 Interleaved), and inherits some of its capabilities; it also has a few particulars of its own.

• Name: Identcode (Deutsche Post Identcode)
• Allowed characters:‘0123456789’
• Checksum: mandatory (modulo 10 different from Code25)
• Length: 12 characters (including checksum)

There are no particular options for this barcode.

Note

If the number of characters is lower than 12, Zend\Barcode\Object\Identcode will automatically prepend missing zeros to the barcode text.

Zend\Barcode\Object\Itf14

This barcode extends Zend\Barcode\Object\Code25interleaved (Code 2 of 5 Interleaved), and inherits some of its capabilities; it also has a few particulars of its own.

• Name: ITF-14
• Allowed characters:‘0123456789’
• Checksum: mandatory (modulo 10)
• Length: 14 characters (including checksum)

There are no particular options for this barcode.

Note

If the number of characters is lower than 14, Zend\Barcode\Object\Itf14 will automatically prepend missing zeros to the barcode text.

Zend\Barcode\Object\Leitcode

This barcode extends Zend\Barcode\Object\Identcode (Deutsche Post Identcode), and inherits some of its capabilities; it also has a few particulars of its own.

• Name: Leitcode (Deutsche Post Leitcode)
• Allowed characters:‘0123456789’
• Checksum: mandatory (modulo 10 different from Code25)
• Length: 14 characters (including checksum)

There are no particular options for this barcode.

Note

If the number of characters is lower than 14, Zend\Barcode\Object\Leitcode will automatically prepend missing zeros to the barcode text.

Zend\Barcode\Object\Planet

• Name: Planet (PostaL Alpha Numeric Encoding Technique)
• Allowed characters:‘0123456789’
• Checksum: mandatory (modulo 10)
• Length: 12 or 14 characters (including checksum)

There are no particular options for this barcode.

Zend\Barcode\Object\Postnet

• Name: Postnet (POSTal Numeric Encoding Technique)
• Allowed characters:‘0123456789’
• Checksum: mandatory (modulo 10)
• Length: 6, 7, 10 or 12 characters (including checksum)

There are no particular options for this barcode.

Zend\Barcode\Object\Royalmail

• Name: Royal Mail or RM4SCC (Royal Mail 4-State Customer Code)
• Allowed characters:‘0123456789ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ’
• Checksum: mandatory
• Length: variable

There are no particular options for this barcode.

Zend\Barcode\Object\Upca

This barcode extends Zend\Barcode\Object\Ean13 (EAN-13), and inherits some of its capabilities; it also has a few particulars of its own.

• Name: UPC-A (Universal Product Code)
• Allowed characters:‘0123456789’
• Checksum: mandatory (modulo 10)
• Length: 12 characters (including checksum)

There are no particular options for this barcode.

Note

If the number of characters is lower than 12, Zend\Barcode\Object\Upca will automatically prepend missing zeros to the barcode text.

The option withQuietZones has no effect with this barcode.

Zend\Barcode\Object\Upce

This barcode extends Zend\Barcode\Object\Upca (UPC-A), and inherits some of its capabilities; it also has a few particulars of its own. The first character of the text to encode is the system (0 or 1).

• Name: UPC-E (Universal Product Code)
• Allowed characters:‘0123456789’
• Checksum: mandatory (modulo 10)
• Length: 8 characters (including checksum)

There are no particular options for this barcode.

Note

If the number of characters is lower than 8, Zend\Barcode\Object\Upce will automatically prepend missing zeros to the barcode text.

Note

If the first character of the text to encode is not 0 or 1, Zend\Barcode\Object\Upce will automatically replace it by 0.

The option withQuietZones has no effect with this barcode.