Laravel 8 Barcode Generator Example

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Today,I will learn you how engender barcode in laravel 8 we will show barcode engenderer example in laravel 8.I will engenderer barcode useing milon/barcode package in laravel 8. laravel 8 barcode engenderer example. in this tutorial, i would relish to show you how to engender or engender barcode in laravel 8 utilizing milon/barcode package.

In this blog, i will utilize milon/barcode package to engender simple, text, numeric and image barcode in laravel 8 app.

Step 1 : Install Laravel 8 Application

we are going from scratch, So we require to get fresh Laravel application using bellow command, So open your terminal OR command prompt and run bellow command:

composer create-project --prefer-dist laravel/laravel blog

Step 2 :Database Configuration

In this step, configure database with your downloded/installed laravel 8 app. So, you need to find .env file and setup database details as following:

DB_CONNECTION=mysql
DB_HOST=127.0.0.1
DB_PORT=3306
DB_DATABASE=db name
DB_USERNAME=db user name
DB_PASSWORD=db password

Step 3 :Installing Barcode Generator Package

Now In this step, install milon/barcode package in laravel 8 app via following command.

composer require milon/barcode

Step 4:Configure Barcode Generator Package

Here In this step,I will configure the milon/barcode package in laravel 8 app. So, Open the providers/config/app.php file and register the provider and aliases for milon/barcode.

'providers' => [
    ....
    Milon\Barcode\BarcodeServiceProvider::class,
],
  
'aliases' => [
    ....
    'DNS1D' => Milon\Barcode\Facades\DNS1DFacade::class,
    'DNS2D' => Milon\Barcode\Facades\DNS2DFacade::class,
]

Step 5:Create Routes

In this step,we will add the bar code generation routes in web.php file, which is located inside routes directory:

use App\Http\Controllers\BarcodeController;
Route::get('/barcode', [BarcodeController::class, 'index'])->name('barcode.index');

Step 6: Creating BarCode Controller

Now this step,I will create generate barcode controller file by using the following command.

php artisan make:controller BarCodeController

After navigate to app/http/controllers and open BarCodeController.php file. And add the simple barcode generation code into it.

<?php

namespace App\Http\Controllers;

use Illuminate\Http\Request;

class BarcodeController extends Controller
{
    public function index()
    {
      return view('barcode');
    }
}

Step 7 :Create Blade View

In this last step , create barcode-generator blade view file inside resources/views directory. And then add the following code into it.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
  <title>Laravel 8 Barcode Generator</title>
</head>
<body>
<div class="container text-center">
  <div class="row">
    <div class="col-md-8 offset-md-2">
       <h1 class="mb-5">Laravel 8 Barcode Generator</h1>
       <div>{!! DNS1D::getBarcodeHTML('4445645656', 'C39') !!}</div></br>
       <div>{!! DNS1D::getBarcodeHTML('4445645656', 'POSTNET') !!}</div></br>
       <div>{!! DNS1D::getBarcodeHTML('4445645656', 'PHARMA') !!}</div></br>
       <div>{!! DNS2D::getBarcodeHTML('4445645656', 'QRCODE') !!}</div></br>
    </div>
  </div>
</div>
</body>
</html>

Now we are ready to run our custom validation rules example so run bellow command for quick run: