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QRcfc released on RIAforge.org |
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It is a CFC based wrapper for the Google ZXing barcode Java library http://code.google.com/p/zxing/.
There is a demo here: ColdFusion QR barcode generator
This demo above is a form that allows you to pick a format and post the required data to 'qr.cfc'. qr.cfc then uses the javaloader library (http://javaloader.riaforge.org/) to load in two jar files that translate the argument strings into a bitmatrix, which you can output as a QR image.
It requires at least a JVM of 1.5 to be running, the demo above does work, but I've discovered that this server is running 1.4, I have a service request 'in' to have it updated to 1.6
Also the svn release uses cfimage to create the output image, if you are running ColdFusion server 7 or below this won't work (cfimage was introduced in ColdFusion 8) so you'll need to do something like this:
2<!--- convert it to a CF compatible image --->
3<!--- CF 8 version <cfset createdImage = ImageNew( buff ) />--->
4
5<cfset strPath = ExpandPath( "./" ) />
6<cfset strPath = strPath & 'images\'>
7
8<cfscript>
9 saveToFile = strPath & 'myBarcode.png';
10 ImageIO = createObject("java", "javax.imageio.ImageIO");
11 outStream = createObject("java", "java.io.FileOutputStream").init(saveToFile);
12
13 // formats ie "png", "gif", ....
14 wasWritten = ImageIO.write( buff, "png", outStream);
15 outStream.close();
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17 createdImage = 'images/myBarcode.png';
18</cfscript>
QR data formats
The biggest hurdle with this project is the format of each of the QR types. Most of them are different in some way. This is why there is a series of functions in the CFC. As it is an open platform it seems to have developed organically, so the format for an email is different from a vcard, for example.
Thanks to...
http://matez.de/qr_codes/?show=MEBKM and http://www.qr-barcodes.com/data-formats/ - for string format examples.Also thanks to Leigh of http://cfsearching.blogspot.com who was a great help with cfimage issues and it was his blog articles that inspired me to look into this.
I was playing with some Java.io file writing stuff and I'd left it in there, it all works again now.