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JavaScript

Posted by ROHIT SINGLA
ROHIT SINGLA
Courses Plus Student 708 Points

Extract information from QR Code, filter it and add to mysql db using php

I want to ask how to add data extracted from scanned QR code into MYSQL DB using PHP. It will be a registration form in which the fields will be filled after filtering out the information extraced from the QR code as per the field.

1 Answer

jason phillips
jason phillips
18,131 Points
jason phillips
jason phillips
18,131 Points

QR Codes essentially point to a pre defined url, so what you could do is build out the url with the variables in the query string for example

www.example.com/qr.php?a=1&b=2&3=test

Then in your code you would just need to look for these query string keys and get the values.